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UBX vs. VIRI, EDIT, ADAP, SLN, SGMT, COYA, NKTX, DERM, FATE, and ELUT

Should you be buying Unity Biotechnology stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Unity Biotechnology include Virios Therapeutics (VIRI), Editas Medicine (EDIT), Adaptimmune Therapeutics (ADAP), Silence Therapeutics (SLN), Sagimet Biosciences (SGMT), Coya Therapeutics (COYA), Nkarta (NKTX), Journey Medical (DERM), Fate Therapeutics (FATE), and Elutia (ELUT). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Unity Biotechnology vs.

Virios Therapeutics (NASDAQ:VIRI) and Unity Biotechnology (NASDAQ:UBX) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment and dividends.

Unity Biotechnology received 177 more outperform votes than Virios Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.16% of users gave Unity Biotechnology an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave Virios Therapeutics an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Virios TherapeuticsOutperform Votes
3
50.00%
Underperform Votes
3
50.00%
Unity BiotechnologyOutperform Votes
180
67.16%
Underperform Votes
88
32.84%

Virios Therapeutics has a beta of 1.58, indicating that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Unity Biotechnology has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Unity Biotechnology's return on equity of -119.70% beat Virios Therapeutics' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Virios TherapeuticsN/A -130.33% -115.00%
Unity Biotechnology N/A -119.70%-45.86%

9.1% of Virios Therapeutics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.5% of Unity Biotechnology shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.2% of Virios Therapeutics shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.8% of Unity Biotechnology shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Virios Therapeutics presently has a consensus target price of $3.00, suggesting a potential downside of 53.63%. Unity Biotechnology has a consensus target price of $5.33, suggesting a potential upside of 321.61%. Given Unity Biotechnology's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Unity Biotechnology is more favorable than Virios Therapeutics.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Virios Therapeutics
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50
Unity Biotechnology
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

In the previous week, Unity Biotechnology had 12 more articles in the media than Virios Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Unity Biotechnology and 0 mentions for Virios Therapeutics. Virios Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Unity Biotechnology's score of -0.27 indicating that Virios Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Virios Therapeutics Neutral
Unity Biotechnology Neutral

Virios Therapeutics has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Unity Biotechnology. Virios Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Unity Biotechnology, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Virios TherapeuticsN/AN/A-$5.30M-$0.27-23.96
Unity Biotechnology$240K88.91-$39.86M-$1.53-0.83

Summary

Unity Biotechnology beats Virios Therapeutics on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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UBX vs. The Competition

MetricUnity BiotechnologyPharmaceutical IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$21.34M$6.99B$5.68B$8.30B
Dividend YieldN/A2.73%4.55%4.02%
P/E Ratio-0.977.2324.5819.25
Price / Sales88.91232.30388.1194.32
Price / CashN/A65.6738.1634.64
Price / Book0.756.617.074.46
Net Income-$39.86M$142.13M$3.19B$247.07M
7 Day Performance-29.33%-1.51%-0.92%0.14%
1 Month Performance-26.45%-3.46%3.58%-4.39%
1 Year Performance-21.91%-5.32%14.15%4.85%

Unity Biotechnology Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
UBX
Unity Biotechnology
4.2183 of 5 stars
$1.27
-2.7%
$5.33
+321.6%
-19.9%$21.34M$240,000.00-0.9760Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
VIRI
Virios Therapeutics
0.2479 of 5 stars
$6.12
-20.8%
$3.00
-51.0%
+1,306.5%$117.86MN/A-22.675Gap Up
EDIT
Editas Medicine
4.1826 of 5 stars
$1.41
-3.4%
$6.83
+384.6%
-82.3%$117.00M$32.31M-0.55230Positive News
Gap Down
ADAP
Adaptimmune Therapeutics
2.18 of 5 stars
$0.46
+1.4%
$2.79
+510.4%
-82.6%$116.86M$175.04M-2.08490Earnings Report
News Coverage
SLN
Silence Therapeutics
2.7841 of 5 stars
$3.90
-0.3%
$40.67
+942.7%
-83.4%$116.73M$43.26M-2.48100Positive News
Gap Down
SGMT
Sagimet Biosciences
2.4591 of 5 stars
$3.78
+1.1%
$23.00
+508.5%
-22.8%$115.95M$2M-2.648
COYA
Coya Therapeutics
2.1807 of 5 stars
$6.85
+5.5%
$16.25
+137.2%
-26.1%$114.44M$9.55M-10.546
NKTX
Nkarta
2.2244 of 5 stars
$1.62
-2.4%
$15.00
+825.9%
-86.4%$114.32MN/A-0.86140Upcoming Earnings
DERM
Journey Medical
2.5877 of 5 stars
$5.31
+1.1%
$9.67
+82.0%
+121.9%$110.93M$57.77M-5.6590
FATE
Fate Therapeutics
3.9485 of 5 stars
$0.97
+2.6%
$5.50
+469.2%
-86.9%$110.74M$13.63M-0.59550Positive News
ELUT
Elutia
4.0625 of 5 stars
$3.20
+0.6%
$9.00
+181.3%
-16.2%$110.60M$24.38M-1.23180
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This page (NASDAQ:UBX) was last updated on 3/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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