GILD vs. MRNA, SGEN, TECH, AMGN, VRTX, REGN, BIIB, ALNY, BMRN, and NBIX
Should you be buying Gilead Sciences stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gilead Sciences include Moderna (MRNA), Seagen (SGEN), Bio-Techne (TECH), Amgen (AMGN), Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX), Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (REGN), Biogen (BIIB), Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (ALNY), BioMarin Pharmaceutical (BMRN), and Neurocrine Biosciences (NBIX). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ:GILD) and Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and dividends.
83.7% of Gilead Sciences shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.3% of Moderna shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Gilead Sciences shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 15.2% of Moderna shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Gilead Sciences presently has a consensus target price of $83.69, suggesting a potential upside of 27.42%. Moderna has a consensus target price of $126.46, suggesting a potential downside of 24.10%. Given Gilead Sciences' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Gilead Sciences is more favorable than Moderna.
Gilead Sciences has higher revenue and earnings than Moderna. Moderna is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gilead Sciences, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gilead Sciences has a beta of 0.22, suggesting that its stock price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Moderna has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Gilead Sciences received 2251 more outperform votes than Moderna when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.37% of users gave Gilead Sciences an outperform vote while only 57.77% of users gave Moderna an outperform vote.
Gilead Sciences has a net margin of 1.76% compared to Moderna's net margin of -115.82%. Gilead Sciences' return on equity of 24.34% beat Moderna's return on equity.
In the previous week, Moderna had 14 more articles in the media than Gilead Sciences. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Moderna and 17 mentions for Gilead Sciences. Gilead Sciences' average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Moderna's score of 0.51 indicating that Gilead Sciences is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Gilead Sciences beats Moderna on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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