WAL vs NUVL Comparison

Western Alliance Bancorporation is a Las Vegas-based holding company with regional banks operating in Nevada, Arizona, and California. The bank offers retail banking services and focuses on mortgages for retail customers and commercial loans. The company's reportable segments are Commercial segment includes provides commercial banking and treasury management products and services to small and middle-market businesses, specialized banking services to sophisticated commercial institutions and investors within niche industries, as well as financial services to the real estate industry. Consumer Related segment offers both commercial banking services to enterprises in consumer-related sectors and consumer banking services, such as residential mortgage banking and Corporate & Other.

Nuvalent Inc is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on creating precisely targeted therapies for patients with cancer. All of the Company's operations are in the United States. The company is engaged in developing small molecules that are designed to overcome the limitations of existing therapies for clinically validated kinase targets. The product candidates of the company include NVL-520, which is being developed for patients with ROS1-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), NVL-655, which is being developed for patients with anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-positive NSCLC, NVL-330, is a brain-penetrant human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-selective inhibitor designed to address the combined medical need of treating tumors driven by HER2ex20.