BNTX vs. GILD, MRNA, BIIB, ARGX, NBIX, TECH, QGEN, RGEN, PCVX, and EXEL
Should you be buying BioNTech stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BioNTech include Gilead Sciences (GILD), Moderna (MRNA), Biogen (BIIB), argenx (ARGX), Neurocrine Biosciences (NBIX), Bio-Techne (TECH), Qiagen (QGEN), Repligen (RGEN), Vaxcyte (PCVX), and Exelixis (EXEL). These companies are all part of the "biological products, except diagnostic" industry.
BioNTech (NASDAQ:BNTX) and Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ:GILD) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.
Gilead Sciences received 2332 more outperform votes than BioNTech when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.37% of users gave Gilead Sciences an outperform vote while only 42.80% of users gave BioNTech an outperform vote.
BioNTech has a beta of 0.27, indicating that its share price is 73% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gilead Sciences has a beta of 0.2, indicating that its share price is 80% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Gilead Sciences had 26 more articles in the media than BioNTech. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Gilead Sciences and 6 mentions for BioNTech. BioNTech's average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat Gilead Sciences' score of 0.81 indicating that BioNTech is being referred to more favorably in the media.
BioNTech presently has a consensus price target of $111.70, suggesting a potential upside of 11.32%. Gilead Sciences has a consensus price target of $83.69, suggesting a potential upside of 29.35%. Given Gilead Sciences' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Gilead Sciences is more favorable than BioNTech.
Gilead Sciences has higher revenue and earnings than BioNTech. Gilead Sciences is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BioNTech, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
15.5% of BioNTech shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.7% of Gilead Sciences shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.2% of BioNTech shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Gilead Sciences shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
BioNTech has a net margin of 4.01% compared to Gilead Sciences' net margin of 1.76%. Gilead Sciences' return on equity of 24.34% beat BioNTech's return on equity.
Summary
Gilead Sciences beats BioNTech on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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