Forte Biosciences (NASDAQ:FBRX – Get Free Report) and Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:KNSA – Get Free Report) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations and risk.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current ratings for Forte Biosciences and Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
Forte Biosciences | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2.50 |
Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3.00 |
Forte Biosciences presently has a consensus price target of $2.75, indicating a potential upside of 281.94%. Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals has a consensus price target of $30.00, indicating a potential upside of 75.49%. Given Forte Biosciences’ higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Forte Biosciences is more favorable than Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals.
Risk & Volatility
Institutional & Insider Ownership
77.6% of Forte Biosciences shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.0% of Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. 10.5% of Forte Biosciences shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 54.2% of Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Profitability
This table compares Forte Biosciences and Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
Forte Biosciences | N/A | -94.27% | -81.36% |
Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals | 5.11% | -6.12% | -5.20% |
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Forte Biosciences and Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals’ gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
Forte Biosciences | N/A | N/A | -$31.48 million | ($1.04) | -0.69 |
Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals | $270.26 million | 4.47 | $14.08 million | $0.18 | 94.97 |
Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals has higher revenue and earnings than Forte Biosciences. Forte Biosciences is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals beats Forte Biosciences on 9 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Forte Biosciences
Forte Biosciences, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company in the United States. The company is developing FB-102 program that addresses various autoimmune diseases, such as graft-versus-host disease, and vitiligo and alopecia areata. Forte Biosciences, Inc. is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
About Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals
Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd., a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on discovering, acquiring, developing, and commercializing therapeutic medicines for patients suffering from debilitating diseases with significant unmet medical needs worldwide. Its product candidates include ARCALYST, an interleukin-1alpha and interleukin-1beta, for the treatment of recurrent pericarditis, which is an inflammatory cardiovascular disease; Mavrilimumab, a monoclonal antibody inhibitor that completed Phase II clinical trials for the treatment of giant cell arteritis; Vixarelimab, a monoclonal antibody, that is in Phase 2b clinical trial for the treatment of prurigo nodularis, a chronic inflammatory skin condition; and KPL-404, a monoclonal antibody inhibitor of the CD40- CD154 interaction, a T-cell co-stimulatory signal critical for B-cell maturation, immunoglobulin class switching, and type 1 immune response. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Hamilton, Bermuda.
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