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Viracta Therapeutics (VIRX) Competitors

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$0.02 -0.01 (-16.67%)
As of 03/13/2025 03:59 PM Eastern

VIRX vs. KZIA, ADIL, PRTG, APM, SNOA, CPHI, VRAX, CERO, SONN, and SPRC

Should you be buying Viracta Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Viracta Therapeutics include Kazia Therapeutics (KZIA), Adial Pharmaceuticals (ADIL), Portage Biotech (PRTG), Aptorum Group (APM), Sonoma Pharmaceuticals (SNOA), China Pharma (CPHI), Virax Biolabs Group (VRAX), CERo Therapeutics (CERO), Sonnet BioTherapeutics (SONN), and SciSparc (SPRC). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Viracta Therapeutics vs.

Viracta Therapeutics (NASDAQ:VIRX) and Kazia Therapeutics (NASDAQ:KZIA) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and media sentiment.

31.4% of Viracta Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.9% of Kazia Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. 10.7% of Viracta Therapeutics shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Kazia Therapeutics shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Kazia Therapeutics' return on equity of 0.00% beat Viracta Therapeutics' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Viracta TherapeuticsN/A -1,899.61% -114.21%
Kazia Therapeutics N/A N/A N/A

Viracta Therapeutics presently has a consensus target price of $4.05, suggesting a potential upside of 16,100.00%. Kazia Therapeutics has a consensus target price of $11.50, suggesting a potential upside of 1,097.92%. Given Viracta Therapeutics' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Viracta Therapeutics is more favorable than Kazia Therapeutics.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Viracta Therapeutics
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.60
Kazia Therapeutics
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Viracta Therapeutics has a beta of 1.44, suggesting that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kazia Therapeutics has a beta of 2.28, suggesting that its share price is 128% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Kazia Therapeutics received 51 more outperform votes than Viracta Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.73% of users gave Viracta Therapeutics an outperform vote while only 52.98% of users gave Kazia Therapeutics an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Viracta TherapeuticsOutperform Votes
29
70.73%
Underperform Votes
12
29.27%
Kazia TherapeuticsOutperform Votes
80
52.98%
Underperform Votes
71
47.02%

Kazia Therapeutics has higher revenue and earnings than Viracta Therapeutics.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Viracta TherapeuticsN/AN/A-$51.06M-$1.10-0.02
Kazia Therapeutics$2.31M2.09-$17.56MN/AN/A

In the previous week, Kazia Therapeutics had 2 more articles in the media than Viracta Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Kazia Therapeutics and 0 mentions for Viracta Therapeutics. Kazia Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat Viracta Therapeutics' score of 0.00 indicating that Kazia Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Viracta Therapeutics Neutral
Kazia Therapeutics Positive

Summary

Kazia Therapeutics beats Viracta Therapeutics on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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VIRX vs. The Competition

MetricViracta TherapeuticsPharmaceutical IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$994,000.00$6.92B$5.61B$7.93B
Dividend YieldN/A2.72%4.89%4.05%
P/E Ratio-0.026.1123.5518.73
Price / SalesN/A223.52384.51119.64
Price / CashN/A65.6738.0534.64
Price / Book0.086.616.814.19
Net Income-$51.06M$139.99M$3.19B$246.99M
7 Day PerformanceN/A-2.16%5.27%-3.16%
1 Month PerformanceN/A-9.48%-1.41%-11.06%
1 Year PerformanceN/A-3.25%12.83%2.19%

Viracta Therapeutics Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
VIRX
Viracta Therapeutics
2.2126 of 5 stars
$0.03
-16.7%
$4.05
+16,100.0%
-97.4%$994,000.00N/A-0.0220Gap Down
KZIA
Kazia Therapeutics
3.6766 of 5 stars
$0.95
-19.5%
$11.50
+1,110.9%
-57.2%$4.78M$2.31M0.0012Short Interest ↓
ADIL
Adial Pharmaceuticals
2.6522 of 5 stars
$0.72
-4.0%
$8.00
+1,011.1%
-60.2%$4.73MN/A-0.2220Short Interest ↑
Gap Down
PRTG
Portage Biotech
0.3148 of 5 stars
$4.00
-10.1%
N/A-64.2%$4.67MN/A-0.106Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
Gap Down
APM
Aptorum Group
1.7015 of 5 stars
$0.90
-4.3%
N/A-78.9%$4.66M$430,000.000.0030Short Interest ↓
Gap Up
SNOA
Sonoma Pharmaceuticals
0.8759 of 5 stars
$2.79
+40.2%
N/A+2,148.2%$4.51M$13.97M-0.69180Gap Up
High Trading Volume
CPHI
China Pharma
N/A$0.23
+0.1%
N/A-29.8%$4.42M$5.54M0.00250Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Gap Up
VRAX
Virax Biolabs Group
0.8455 of 5 stars
$1.37
-2.5%
N/A+51.8%$4.41M$84,872.000.005News Coverage
CERO
CERo Therapeutics
N/A$1.42
-3.4%
N/A-99.6%$4.30MN/A0.008News Coverage
Gap Down
SONN
Sonnet BioTherapeutics
1.8277 of 5 stars
$1.40
-6.0%
$20.00
+1,328.6%
-26.3%$4.29M$1M0.0010Short Interest ↑
SPRC
SciSparc
0.709 of 5 stars
$0.40
+25.2%
N/A-87.7%$4.14M$1.75M0.004Gap Up
High Trading Volume
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This page (NASDAQ:VIRX) was last updated on 3/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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