Reviewing CG Oncology (NASDAQ:CGON) and BioCryst Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:BCRX)

CG Oncology (NASDAQ:CGON) and BioCryst Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:BCRX) are both medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation and dividends.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for CG Oncology and BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CG Oncology	0	0	7	1	3.13
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals	0	1	5	0	2.83

CG Oncology currently has a consensus price target of $64.43, indicating a potential upside of 74.23%. BioCryst Pharmaceuticals has a consensus price target of $14.17, indicating a potential upside of 78.20%. Given BioCryst Pharmaceuticals’ higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe BioCryst Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than CG Oncology.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares CG Oncology and BioCryst Pharmaceuticals”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
CG Oncology	$650,000.00	3,791.30	-$48.61 million	N/A	N/A
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals	$382.24 million	4.29	-$226.54 million	($1.07)	-7.43

CG Oncology has higher earnings, but lower revenue than BioCryst Pharmaceuticals.

Profitability

This table compares CG Oncology and BioCryst Pharmaceuticals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CG Oncology	N/A	N/A	N/A
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals	-38.18%	N/A	-28.14%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

26.6% of CG Oncology shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.9% of BioCryst Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. 4.8% of BioCryst Pharmaceuticals shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

CG Oncology beats BioCryst Pharmaceuticals on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About CG Oncology

CG Oncology, Inc., an oncolytic immunotherapy company, focuses on developing and commercializing backbone bladder-sparing therapeutics for patients with bladder cancer. The company develops BOND-003 for the treatment of high-risk bacillus calmette guerin (BCG)-unresponsive non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) patients; CORE-001 to treat cretostimogene in combination with pembrolizumab in high-risk BCG-unresponsive NMIBC patients; and CORE-002 for the treatment of cretostimogene in combination with the checkpoint inhibitor nivolumab in muscle invasive bladder cancer patients. It also develops PIVOT-006, a cretostimogene monotherapy for intermediate-risk NMIBC following transurethral resection of the bladder tumor; and CORE-008 for treating patients with high-risk NMIBC, including BCG-exposed and BCG-naïve NMIBC patients. CG Oncology, Inc. was formerly known as Cold Genesys, Inc. and changed its name to CG Oncology, Inc. in June 2020. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Irvine, California.

About BioCryst Pharmaceuticals

BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biotechnology company, develops oral small-molecule and protein therapeutics to treat rare diseases. The company markets peramivir injection, an intravenous neuraminidase inhibitor for the treatment of acute uncomplicated influenza under the RAPIVAB, RAPIACTA, and PERAMIFLU names; and ORLADEYO, an oral serine protease inhibitor to treat hereditary angioedema. It is also developing BCX10013, an oral factor D inhibitor for complement-mediated diseases. The company has collaborations and in-license relationships with the Torii Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.; Seqirus UK Limited; Shionogi & Co., Ltd.; Green Cross Corporation; National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority; the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; and The University of Alabama at Birmingham, as well as Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and Industrial Research, Ltd. BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.