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Zafgen (ZFGN) Competitors

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ZFGN vs. COGT, PCRX, PAHC, NUVB, AVBP, ABCL, QURE, ETNB, PLRX, and CDMO

Should you be buying Zafgen stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Zafgen include Cogent Biosciences (COGT), Pacira BioSciences (PCRX), Phibro Animal Health (PAHC), Nuvation Bio (NUVB), ArriVent BioPharma (AVBP), AbCellera Biologics (ABCL), uniQure (QURE), 89bio (ETNB), Pliant Therapeutics (PLRX), and Avid Bioservices (CDMO). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.

Zafgen vs.

Cogent Biosciences (NASDAQ:COGT) and Zafgen (NASDAQ:ZFGN) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk and valuation.

Cogent Biosciences presently has a consensus target price of $14.83, indicating a potential upside of 89.20%. Given Cogent Biosciences' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Cogent Biosciences is more favorable than Zafgen.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Cogent Biosciences
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.57
Zafgen
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

In the previous week, Cogent Biosciences had 4 more articles in the media than Zafgen. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Cogent Biosciences and 0 mentions for Zafgen. Cogent Biosciences' average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Zafgen's score of 0.00 indicating that Cogent Biosciences is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Cogent Biosciences Neutral
Zafgen Neutral

70.4% of Zafgen shares are held by institutional investors. 5.9% of Cogent Biosciences shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.2% of Zafgen shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Zafgen is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cogent Biosciences, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Cogent BiosciencesN/AN/A-$192.41M-$2.48-3.16
ZafgenN/AN/A-$45.41M-$1.07-3.75

Cogent Biosciences has a beta of 1.7, suggesting that its share price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Zafgen has a beta of 0.27, suggesting that its share price is 73% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Zafgen received 58 more outperform votes than Cogent Biosciences when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.69% of users gave Cogent Biosciences an outperform vote while only 68.59% of users gave Zafgen an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Cogent BiosciencesOutperform Votes
287
70.69%
Underperform Votes
119
29.31%
ZafgenOutperform Votes
345
68.59%
Underperform Votes
158
31.41%

Zafgen's return on equity of -51.34% beat Cogent Biosciences' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Cogent BiosciencesN/A -112.55% -60.44%
Zafgen N/A -51.34%-34.55%

Summary

Cogent Biosciences beats Zafgen on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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ZFGN vs. The Competition

MetricZafgenPharmaceutical Preparations IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$150.26M$6.57B$5.14B$9.08B
Dividend YieldN/A2.99%5.09%4.23%
P/E Ratio-4.1810.5990.0517.18
Price / SalesN/A196.061,116.25117.05
Price / CashN/A57.1643.1037.85
Price / Book2.975.094.784.78
Net Income-$45.41M$151.83M$120.31M$225.60M

Zafgen Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ZFGN
Zafgen
N/A$4.01
+0.8%
N/A+4.4%$150.26MN/A-4.1838High Trading Volume
COGT
Cogent Biosciences
2.1944 of 5 stars
$8.31
+2.0%
$14.83
+78.5%
+42.5%$917.92MN/A-3.2980
PCRX
Pacira BioSciences
3.7482 of 5 stars
$19.87
+0.1%
$23.50
+18.3%
-42.4%$917.40M$674.98M-9.78720Gap Down
PAHC
Phibro Animal Health
4.1512 of 5 stars
$22.64
-0.1%
$19.00
-16.1%
+90.4%$916.99M$1.05B52.561,940Analyst Forecast
NUVB
Nuvation Bio
2.3873 of 5 stars
$2.69
+3.1%
$6.60
+145.4%
+81.7%$905.37MN/A0.0060News Coverage
Gap Down
AVBP
ArriVent BioPharma
0.9574 of 5 stars
$26.51
-0.8%
$36.80
+38.8%
N/A$893.31MN/A0.0040News Coverage
Positive News
ABCL
AbCellera Biologics
1.9861 of 5 stars
$2.88
+2.5%
$8.67
+200.9%
-49.9%$850.65M$32.96M-4.92586News Coverage
QURE
uniQure
3.5184 of 5 stars
$17.40
+13.0%
$32.13
+84.6%
+171.2%$848.13M$28.59M-3.36500Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
ETNB
89bio
1.7364 of 5 stars
$7.90
+2.7%
$30.33
+284.0%
-25.9%$838.40MN/A-2.6440News Coverage
PLRX
Pliant Therapeutics
3.3664 of 5 stars
$13.72
+3.2%
$40.50
+195.2%
-19.9%$834.86M$1.58M0.0090
CDMO
Avid Bioservices
2.4366 of 5 stars
$12.37
+0.2%
$12.25
-1.0%
+91.9%$791.22M$150.45M-5.17371

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This page (NASDAQ:ZFGN) was last updated on 12/22/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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