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CORT vs NVS
Side-by-side comparison of Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated (CORT) and Novartis AG (NVS): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.
Summary
- Both CORT and NVS operate in Biotechnology: Pharmaceutical Preparations (Health Care), so they compete in similar markets.
- NVS is the larger of the two at $262.75B, about 21.3x CORT ($12.32B).
- CORT has been more active in the news (15 items in the past 4 weeks vs 5 for NVS).
- NVS has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 17 for CORT).
- Company
- Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated
- Novartis AG
- Price
- -
- -
- Market cap
- $12.32B
- $262.75B
- 1M return
- -
- -
- 1Y return
- -
- -
- Industry
- Biotechnology: Pharmaceutical Preparations
- Biotechnology: Pharmaceutical Preparations
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- NYSE
- IPO
- 2004
- News (4w)
- 15
- 5
- Recent ratings
- 17
- 25
Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated
Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated discovers, develops, and commercializes drugs for the treatment of severe metabolic, oncologic, and psychiatric disorders in the United States. The company offers Korlym (mifepristone) tablets as a once-daily oral medication for the treatment of hyperglycemia secondary to hypercortisolism in adult patients with endogenous Cushing's syndrome, who have type 2 diabetes mellitus or glucose intolerance, and have failed surgery or are not candidates for surgery. It is developing relacorilant to treat patients with Cushing's syndrome; and nab-paclitaxel in combination with relacorilant, which has completed Phase II clinical trial to treat patients with serous ovarian tumors, as well as in Phase III clinical trial for the treatment of solid tumors. The company is also developing selective cortisol modulator combined with Xtandi that is in open label dose finding trial to treat patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer; selective cortisol modulator for the treatment of antipsychotic-induced weight gain; and FKBP5 gene expression assays. Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.
Novartis AG
Novartis AG researches, develops, manufactures, and markets healthcare products worldwide. The company operates through two segments, Innovative Medicines and Sandoz. The Innovative Medicines segment offers prescription medicines for patients and healthcare providers. It also provides ophthalmology, neuroscience, immunology, hepatology and dermatology, respiratory, established, and cardiovascular, renal and metabolism medicine products. The Sandoz segment provides active ingredients and finished dosage forms of small molecule pharmaceuticals to third parties across a range of therapeutic areas, as well as finished dosage form anti-infectives. It also provides active pharmaceutical ingredients and intermediates primarily antibiotics; protein- or other biotechnology-based products, including biosimilars; and biotechnology manufacturing services. Novartis AG has a license and collaboration agreement with Alnylam Pharmaceuticals to develop, manufacture, and commercialize inclisiran; an agreement with CureVac to manufacture COVID-19 vaccine candidate CVnCoV; a collaboration with Artios Pharma Limited to create next generation DDR cancer therapies; and a clinical collaboration with Kura Oncology, Inc. to evaluate the combination of Tipifarnib and Alpelisib in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. The company was incorporated in 1996 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.
Latest CORT
- Bloom Energy, Illumina, and Everpure Set to Join S&P 500; Others to Join S&P 100, S&P MidCap 400, and S&P SmallCap 600
- Chief Development Officer Guyer William was granted 328 shares, increasing direct ownership by 8% to 4,313 units (SEC Form 4)
- Officer Maduck Sean covered exercise/tax liability with 117 shares, exercised 25,000 shares at a strike of $8.27, sold $2,860,737 worth of shares (25,000 units at $114.43) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan and was granted 300 shares, increasing direct ownership by 2% to 9,938 units (SEC Form 4) (for withholding tax)
- Chief Financial Officer Mokari Atabak covered exercise/tax liability with 102 shares and was granted 276 shares, increasing direct ownership by 1% to 16,304 units (SEC Form 4) (withholding obligation)
- Chief Business Officer Robb Gary Charles was granted 328 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 91 shares, increasing direct ownership by 2% to 13,663 units (SEC Form 4) to satisfy withholding obligation
- President, Oncology Vieira Roberto Wandenkolk was granted 276 shares, covered exercise/tax liability with 102 shares, exercised 58,333 shares at a strike of $21.63 and sold $6,460,766 worth of shares (58,333 units at $110.76) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, increasing direct ownership by 4% to 4,242 units (SEC Form 4) to cover withholding tax
- Officer Lyon Joseph Douglas was granted 260 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 72 shares, increasing direct ownership by 3% to 5,683 units (SEC Form 4) to cover taxes
- New insider Vieira Roberto Wandenkolk claimed ownership of 4,068 shares (SEC Form 3)
- Director Park Kimberly exercised 30,000 shares at a strike of $13.49, covered exercise/tax liability with 3,315 shares and sold $3,270,169 worth of shares (26,685 units at $122.55) (SEC Form 4)
- Officer Maduck Sean exercised 30,955 shares at a strike of $11.35 and sold $3,887,320 worth of shares (30,955 units at $125.58) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan (SEC Form 4)
Latest NVS
- RBC Capital Mkts initiated coverage on Novartis AG
- Novartis AG downgraded by Deutsche Bank
- SEC Form 6-K filed by Novartis AG
- SEC Form 6-K filed by Novartis AG
- SEC Form 6-K filed by Novartis AG
- SEC Form 6-K filed by Novartis AG
- The Quest to Repair What Multiple Sclerosis Takes Away
- SEC Form 6-K filed by Novartis AG
- SEC Form 6-K filed by Novartis AG
- SEC Form 6-K filed by Novartis AG