VKTX vs. LEGN, CERE, ELAN, ASND, JAZZ, ITCI, ROIV, BPMC, CYTK, and CTLT
Should you be buying Viking Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Viking Therapeutics include Legend Biotech (LEGN), Cerevel Therapeutics (CERE), Elanco Animal Health (ELAN), Ascendis Pharma A/S (ASND), Jazz Pharmaceuticals (JAZZ), Intra-Cellular Therapies (ITCI), Roivant Sciences (ROIV), Blueprint Medicines (BPMC), Cytokinetics (CYTK), and Catalent (CTLT). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Legend Biotech (NASDAQ:LEGN) and Viking Therapeutics (NASDAQ:VKTX) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Legend Biotech currently has a consensus price target of $82.74, indicating a potential upside of 83.21%. Viking Therapeutics has a consensus price target of $112.38, indicating a potential upside of 67.72%. Given Viking Therapeutics' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Legend Biotech is more favorable than Viking Therapeutics.
In the previous week, Legend Biotech had 10 more articles in the media than Viking Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Legend Biotech and 20 mentions for Viking Therapeutics. Legend Biotech's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Viking Therapeutics' score of 0.55 indicating that Viking Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Viking Therapeutics has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Legend Biotech. Viking Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Legend Biotech, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Viking Therapeutics has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Viking Therapeutics' net margin of -135.92%. Legend Biotech's return on equity of -18.41% beat Viking Therapeutics' return on equity.
70.9% of Legend Biotech shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.0% of Viking Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Legend Biotech shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.7% of Viking Therapeutics shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Legend Biotech has a beta of 0.12, indicating that its share price is 88% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Viking Therapeutics has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Viking Therapeutics received 540 more outperform votes than Legend Biotech when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 79.87% of users gave Viking Therapeutics an outperform vote while only 64.13% of users gave Legend Biotech an outperform vote.
Summary
Viking Therapeutics beats Legend Biotech on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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