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Vallon Pharmaceuticals (VLON) Competitors

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VLON vs. XCUR, CRVO, GNLX, SLN, THTX, AVTE, ADAG, BMEA, ANL, and MGNX

Should you be buying Vallon Pharmaceuticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vallon Pharmaceuticals include Exicure (XCUR), CervoMed (CRVO), Genelux (GNLX), Silence Therapeutics (SLN), Theratechnologies (THTX), Aerovate Therapeutics (AVTE), Adagene (ADAG), Biomea Fusion (BMEA), Adlai Nortye (ANL), and MacroGenics (MGNX). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.

Vallon Pharmaceuticals vs.

Exicure (NASDAQ:XCUR) and Vallon Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:VLON) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.

Exicure received 8 more outperform votes than Vallon Pharmaceuticals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Vallon Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 47.37% of users gave Exicure an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
ExicureOutperform Votes
9
47.37%
Underperform Votes
10
52.63%
Vallon PharmaceuticalsOutperform Votes
1
100.00%
Underperform Votes
No Votes

42.8% of Exicure shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.7% of Vallon Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.9% of Exicure shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 37.3% of Vallon Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Exicure has a beta of 3.74, meaning that its share price is 274% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vallon Pharmaceuticals has a beta of -1.14, meaning that its share price is 214% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Exicure had 4 more articles in the media than Vallon Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Exicure and 0 mentions for Vallon Pharmaceuticals. Exicure's average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat Vallon Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.00 indicating that Exicure is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Exicure Neutral
Vallon Pharmaceuticals Neutral

Exicure's return on equity of -190.90% beat Vallon Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
ExicureN/A -190.90% -36.75%
Vallon Pharmaceuticals N/A -230.48%-124.89%

Vallon Pharmaceuticals has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Exicure. Vallon Pharmaceuticals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Exicure, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Exicure$500K106.65-$16.91M-$4.81-1.75
Vallon Pharmaceuticals$100K203.58-$7.02M-$0.78-1.94

Summary

Exicure beats Vallon Pharmaceuticals on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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VLON vs. The Competition

MetricVallon PharmaceuticalsPharmaceutical IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$20.36M$6.44B$5.30B$7.34B
Dividend YieldN/A3.21%5.45%4.30%
P/E Ratio-1.946.8921.8617.80
Price / Sales203.58230.51380.5297.73
Price / CashN/A65.6738.2634.64
Price / Book8.395.936.453.98
Net Income-$7.02M$142.99M$3.22B$247.81M

Vallon Pharmaceuticals Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
VLON
Vallon Pharmaceuticals
N/A$1.51
-1.3%
N/A+196.1%$20.36M$100,000.00-1.943
XCUR
Exicure
1.7775 of 5 stars
$11.95
-6.6%
N/A+1,358.2%$75.49M$500,000.00-5.7750Short Interest ↓
Gap Up
CRVO
CervoMed
3.449 of 5 stars
$8.65
-11.4%
$27.50
+217.9%
-61.2%$75.28M$7.14M-4.264Short Interest ↓
Gap Up
GNLX
Genelux
0.8086 of 5 stars
$2.15
-0.5%
$18.25
+748.8%
-31.9%$74.40M$8,000.00-2.2610Gap Up
SLN
Silence Therapeutics
2.0055 of 5 stars
$2.46
+3.3%
$40.67
+1,553.8%
-85.7%$73.48M$43.26M-1.56100News Coverage
Gap Up
THTX
Theratechnologies
N/A$1.59
-3.0%
N/A+92.4%$73.11M$85.87M-15.90140Analyst Revision
News Coverage
AVTE
Aerovate Therapeutics
0.8135 of 5 stars
$2.52
flat
$2.25
-10.7%
-87.3%$72.90MN/A-0.8420Positive News
ADAG
Adagene
2.5177 of 5 stars
$1.51
-2.3%
$8.00
+431.6%
-42.0%$70.90M$103,204.000.00260Short Interest ↑
Positive News
BMEA
Biomea Fusion
1.9694 of 5 stars
$1.88
-6.7%
$23.91
+1,175.2%
-84.9%$70.45MN/A-0.4750
ANL
Adlai Nortye
1.5936 of 5 stars
$1.87
-0.3%
$9.00
+382.6%
-83.9%$68.82M$5M0.00127Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
MGNX
MacroGenics
3.7206 of 5 stars
$1.07
-3.2%
$7.38
+592.5%
-92.2%$67.82M$148.34M-0.68430News Coverage
Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:VLON) was last updated on 4/19/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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