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AZN vs WVE

Side-by-side comparison of AstraZeneca PLC (AZN) and Wave Life Sciences Ltd. (WVE): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both AZN and WVE operate in Biotechnology: Pharmaceutical Preparations (Health Care), so they compete in similar markets.
  • AZN is the larger of the two at $563.07B, about 513.4x WVE ($1.10B).
  • Over the past year, AZN is down 3.1% and WVE is down 18.9% - AZN leads by 15.8 points.
  • AZN has been more active in the news (21 items in the past 4 weeks vs 5 for WVE).
  • AZN has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 20 for WVE).
PerformanceAZN-3.08%WVE-57.38%
2026-02-02+0.00%2026-06-09
MetricAZNWVE
Company
AstraZeneca PLC
Wave Life Sciences Ltd.
Price
$182.49+0.45%
$5.72+0.53%
Market cap
$563.07B
$1.10B
1M return
-0.14%
-20.06%
1Y return
-3.08%
-18.92%
Industry
Biotechnology: Pharmaceutical Preparations
Biotechnology: Pharmaceutical Preparations
Exchange
NYSE
NASDAQ
IPO
2026
2015
News (4w)
21
5
Recent ratings
25
20
AZN

AstraZeneca PLC

AstraZeneca PLC discovers, develops, manufactures, and commercializes prescription medicines in the areas of oncology, cardiovascular, renal and metabolism, respiratory, infection, neuroscience, and gastroenterology worldwide. The company's marketed products include Tagrisso, Lynparza, Imfinzi, Enhertu, Koselugo, Lumoxiti, Equidacent, Zoladex, Faslodex, Iressa, Arimidex, Casodex/Cosudex, and others for oncology diseases; Onglyza, Bydureon, Lokelma, Byetta, Qtern, Symlin, and others for cardiovascular, renal, and metabolism diseases; and Symbicort, Pulmicort, Fasenra, Daliresp/Daxas, Duaklir, Tudorza/Eklira, Bevespi, Breztri, Anifrolumab, and others for respiratory and immunology diseases. It also offers other medicines and COVID-19 products, including Synagis, Fluenz Tetra/FluMist Quadrivalent, Seroquel IR/Seroquel XR, Vimovo, Movantik/Moventig, Nexium, Losec/Prilosec, and COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca. The company serves primary care and specialty care physicians through distributors and local representative offices. It has a collaboration agreement with Daiichi Sankyo to develop and commercialize DS-1062 for the treatment of trophoblast cell-surface antigen 2 (TROP2) tumor; AliveCor, Inc. to develop non-invasive potassium monitoring solutions; Massachusetts General Hospital to accelerate digital health solutions; Sanguina on smartphone application study for hemoglobin management in patients with anemia of chronic kidney disease; Alchemab to enhance prostate cancer research; and Proteros biostructures GmbH to discover and develop novel small molecules for the treatment of various types of cancer. The company was formerly known as Zeneca Group PLC and changed its name to AstraZeneca PLC in April 1999. It has a collaboration agreement with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to research, develop, and commercialize small molecule medicines for obesity. AstraZeneca PLC was incorporated in 1992 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

WVE

Wave Life Sciences Ltd.

Wave Life Sciences Ltd., a clinical stage genetic medicine company, designs, optimizes, and produces of novel stereopure oligonucleotides through PRISM, a discovery and drug developing platform. The company is primarily developing oligonucleotides target ribonucleic acid to reduce the expression of disease-promoting proteins or transform the production of dysfunctional mutant proteins into the production of functional proteins. It develops WVE-120101 and WVE-120102, a stereopure therapeutic candidates, which are in Phase 1b/2a clinical trials for the treatment of Huntington's disease (HD); WVE-003, mutant huntingtin SNP3 program for the treatment of HD; WVE-004, C9orf72 program for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia; WVE-N531, our Exon 53 program for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy; and ATXN3 program in SCA3. The company has collaboration agreements with Pfizer Inc., Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, University of Oxford, and University of Massachusetts. Wave Life Sciences Ltd. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Singapore.

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