Financial Contrast: Peak Bio (PKBO) vs. Its Peers

Insider & Institutional Ownership

50.3% of shares of all “Biological products, except diagnostic” companies are held by institutional investors. 19.9% of Peak Bio shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.7% of shares of all “Biological products, except diagnostic” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Peak Bio and its peers revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Peak Bio	$370,000.00	-$12.83 million	-0.33
Peak Bio Competitors	$549.95 million	-$36.47 million	-15.51

Peak Bio’s peers have higher revenue, but lower earnings than Peak Bio. Peak Bio is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Profitability

This table compares Peak Bio and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Peak Bio	N/A	N/A	-253.92%
Peak Bio Competitors	-4,957.16%	-160.29%	-43.10%

Risk and Volatility

Peak Bio has a beta of 1.56, meaning that its stock price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Peak Bio’s peers have a beta of 1.14, meaning that their average stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Peak Bio beats its peers on 6 of the 9 factors compared.

Peak Bio Company Profile

Peak Bio, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on developing therapeutics for the treatment of patients with inflammatory, cancer, and rare and specialty diseases. The company's lead product candidate is PHP-303, which is in phase 2 clinical study for the treatment of alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and acute respiratory distress syndrome. It also develops Trop2 PH1, an antibody-drug-conjugate for solid tumors. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Pleasanton, California.