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VIR vs XBIT

Side-by-side comparison of Vir Biotechnology Inc. (VIR) and XBiotech Inc. (XBIT): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both companies sit in the Health Care sector. VIR focuses on Biotechnology: Biological Products (No Diagnostic Substances), while XBIT focuses on Biotechnology: Pharmaceutical Preparations.
  • VIR is the larger of the two at $2.08B, about 34.7x XBIT ($59.8M).
  • VIR has been more active in the news (20 items in the past 4 weeks vs 7 for XBIT).
  • VIR has more recent analyst coverage (19 ratings vs 0 for XBIT).
MetricVIRXBIT
Company
Vir Biotechnology Inc.
XBiotech Inc.
Price
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Market cap
$2.08B
$59.8M
1M return
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1Y return
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Industry
Biotechnology: Biological Products (No Diagnostic Substances)
Biotechnology: Pharmaceutical Preparations
Exchange
NASDAQ
NASDAQ
IPO
2019
2015
News (4w)
20
7
Recent ratings
19
0
VIR

Vir Biotechnology Inc.

Vir Biotechnology, Inc., a clinical-stage immunology company, develops therapeutic products to treat and prevent serious infectious diseases. It develops VIR-2218 and VIR-3434 for the treatment of hepatitis B virus; VIR-2482 for the prevention of influenza A virus; VIR-1111 for the prevention of human immunodeficiency virus; and VIR-2020 for the prevention of tuberculosis. The company has grant agreements with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and National Institutes of Health; an option and license agreement with Brii Biosciences Limited and Brii Biosciences Offshore Limited; a collaboration and license agreement with Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; a collaboration, license, and option agreement with Visterra, Inc.; license agreements with The Rockefeller University and MedImmune, Inc.; collaboration with WuXi Biologics and Glaxo Wellcome UK Ltd.; and a collaborative research agreement with Generation Bio., as well as GlaxoSmithKline Intellectual Property Development Limited, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA., and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. It also has a manufacturing agreement with Samsung Biologics Co.,Ltd. for the manufacture of SARS-COV-2 antibodies for potential COVID-19 treatment; and clinical collaboration with Gilead Sciences, Inc. for chronic hepatitis B virus. Vir Biotechnology, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

XBIT

XBiotech Inc.

XBiotech Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, discovers, develops, and commercializes True Human monoclonal antibodies for treating various diseases. The company focuses on developing a pipeline of antibody therapies for treating oncology, inflammatory conditions, and infectious diseases. It is also developing interleukin-1 alpha therapies to treat variety of medical conditions, such as cancer, stroke, heart attack, or arthritis; and True Human COVID-19 therapy for treating the COVID-19 mutant virus. In addition, the company provides clinical trial contract research operations to conduct two large, double-blind placebo-controlled Phase II clinical studies. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

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