ASMB vs PED Comparison

Assembly Biosciences Inc is a clinical-stage biotechnology company. It is advancing two innovative platform programs, a novel class of oral therapeutics for the treatment of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and novel class of oral synthetic live biotherapeutics, which are designed to restore health to a dysbiotic microbiome. The company's HBV-cure program is aimed at increasing the current low cure rate for patients with HBV and is pursuing multiple drug candidates that inhibit multiple steps of the HBV lifecycle. Assembly has discovered several novel core protein Allosteric Modulators, which are small molecules that directly target and allosterically modulate the HBV core protein. The majority of the revenue is generated from the HBV cure program.

PEDEVCO Corp is an oil and gas company focused on the acquisition and development of oil and natural gas assets in modern drilling and completion techniques and technologies have yet to be applied. The company focuses on legacy proved properties where there is a long production history, well-defined geology and existing infrastructure that can be leveraged when applying modern field management technologies. The current properties of the company are located in the San Andres formation of the Permian Basin situated in West Texas and eastern New Mexico (the Permian Basin) and in the Denver-Julesberg Basin (D-J Basin) in Colorado and Wyoming.