Longeveron (NASDAQ:LGVN – Get Free Report) and Contineum Therapeutics (NASDAQ:CTNM – Get Free Report) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and dividends.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Longeveron and Contineum Therapeutics, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Longeveron | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3.25 |
| Contineum Therapeutics | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3.20 |
Longeveron currently has a consensus target price of $8.67, suggesting a potential upside of 455.56%. Contineum Therapeutics has a consensus target price of $23.75, suggesting a potential upside of 479.27%. Given Contineum Therapeutics’ higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Contineum Therapeutics is more favorable than Longeveron.
Profitability
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Longeveron | -967.49% | -142.43% | -100.84% |
| Contineum Therapeutics | N/A | -49.92% | -20.52% |
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Longeveron and Contineum Therapeutics”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Longeveron | $2.39 million | 9.74 | -$21.41 million | ($6.28) | -0.25 |
| Contineum Therapeutics | $50.00 million | 2.12 | $22.72 million | ($4.90) | -0.84 |
Contineum Therapeutics has higher revenue and earnings than Longeveron. Contineum Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Longeveron, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
10.0% of Longeveron shares are held by institutional investors. 19.1% of Longeveron shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Contineum Therapeutics beats Longeveron on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Longeveron
Longeveron Inc., a clinical stage biotechnology company, develops cellular therapies for aging-related and life-threatening conditions in the United States and Japan. The company’s lead investigational product is the LOMECEL-B, an allogeneic mesenchymal stem cell formulation sourced from the bone marrow of young and healthy adult donors. It is conducting Phase 1, Phase 1/2, Phase 2a, and Phase 2b clinical trials in various indications, such as aging-related frailty, alzheimer’s disease, and hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Longeveron Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida.
About Contineum Therapeutics
Contineum Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on discovering and developing novel oral small molecule therapies for neuroscience, inflammation, and immunology indications with high unmet need. Its lead asset is PIPE-791, a novel, brain penetrant, small molecule inhibitor of the lysophosphatidic acid 1 receptor (LPA1R) for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and progressive multiple sclerosis (MS). The company also develops PIPE-307, a novel, small molecule selective inhibitor of the muscarinic type 1 M1 receptor to treat depression and relapse remitting MS; and CTX-343, a peripherally-restricted LPA1R antagonist. Contineum Therapeutics, Inc. was formerly known as Pipeline Therapeutics, Inc. and changed its name to Contineum Therapeutics, Inc. in November 2023. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.
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