Curis (NASDAQ:CRIS – Get Free Report) and Palisade Bio (NASDAQ:PALI – Get Free Report) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership and profitability.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Curis and Palisade Bio”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Curis | $10.02 million | 2.90 | -$47.41 million | ($7.81) | -0.44 |
| Palisade Bio | $250,000.00 | 16.37 | -$12.30 million | ($13.98) | -0.11 |
Palisade Bio has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Curis. Curis is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Palisade Bio, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Ratings
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Curis | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3.00 |
| Palisade Bio | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3.00 |
Curis currently has a consensus target price of $23.00, indicating a potential upside of 570.55%. Palisade Bio has a consensus target price of $23.00, indicating a potential upside of 1,454.05%. Given Palisade Bio’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Palisade Bio is more favorable than Curis.
Risk and Volatility
Curis has a beta of 3.42, meaning that its stock price is 242% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Palisade Bio has a beta of 1.42, meaning that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
30.0% of Curis shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.8% of Palisade Bio shares are held by institutional investors. 5.7% of Curis shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Palisade Bio 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.
Profitability
This table compares Curis and Palisade Bio’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Curis | -443.35% | -923.37% | -78.35% |
| Palisade Bio | N/A | -148.51% | -115.16% |
Summary
Curis beats Palisade Bio on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Curis
Curis, Inc., a biotechnology company, engages in the discovery and development of drug candidates for the treatment of human cancers in the United States. Its clinical stage drug candidates include Emavusertib, an oral small molecule IRAK4 kinase inhibitor, which is in a Phase 1/2 open-label, single arm expansion trial in patients with relapsed or refractory, or R/R, AML and high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes. The company’s pipeline also includes Fimepinostat, an oral dual inhibitor of HDAC and PI3K enzymes for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma; CA-170, an oral, small molecule antagonist designated as CA-170 that selectively targets PD-L1 and VISTA; and CA-327, an oral, small molecule, TIM3/PD-L1, which is a molecule antagonist of PD-L1 and TIM3. It has collaboration agreement with Genentech Inc., or Genentech and F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, or Roche, for the commercialization of Erivedge, an orally-administered small molecule hedgehog signaling pathway antagonist for the treatment of advanced basal cell carcinoma, or BCC; Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited for the discovery, development, and commercialization of small molecule compounds in the areas of immuno-oncology and precision oncology; and also licensed four programs under the Aurigene collaboration, including emavusertib. Curis, Inc. was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts.
About Palisade Bio
Palisade Bio, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on focuses on developing therapeutics that protect the integrity of the intestinal barrier in the United States. The company's lead therapeutic candidate is PALI-2108, a prodrug PDE4 inhibitor, currently under pre-clinical development as a therapeutic for patients living with inflammatory bowel diseases, including ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease (CD), as well as develops PALI-1908, an oral, selective PDE4 inhibitor prodrug that is locally bioactivated in the terminal ileum of CD patients, currently in the research stage. It has a research collaboration and license agreement with Giiant Pharma, Inc. for the development, manufacture, and commercialization of its compounds; a license agreement with the Regents of the University of California; a co-development and distribution agreement with Newsoara Biopharma Co., Ltd; and a transformative strategic collaboration with Strand Life Sciences for advancing precision medicine for ulcerative colitis therapy. The company is based in Carlsbad, California.
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