IMVT vs. UTZ, VVNT, ADV, CCIV, MPLN, NBIX, TECH, QGEN, RGEN, and PCVX
Should you be buying Immunovant stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Immunovant include Utz Brands (UTZ), Vivint Smart Home (VVNT), Advantage Solutions (ADV), Churchill Capital Corp IV (CCIV), MultiPlan (MPLN), Neurocrine Biosciences (NBIX), Bio-Techne (TECH), Qiagen (QGEN), Repligen (RGEN), and Vaxcyte (PCVX).
Utz Brands (NYSE:UTZ) and Immunovant (NASDAQ:IMVT) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, valuation and risk.
Utz Brands has higher revenue and earnings than Immunovant. Utz Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Immunovant, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Immunovant has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Immunovant's net margin of -1.38%. Immunovant's return on equity of 6.16% beat Utz Brands' return on equity.
Immunovant received 61 more outperform votes than Utz Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.71% of users gave Immunovant an outperform vote while only 60.00% of users gave Utz Brands an outperform vote.
Utz Brands has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Immunovant has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Immunovant had 8 more articles in the media than Utz Brands. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Immunovant and 7 mentions for Utz Brands. Immunovant's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Utz Brands' score of 0.68 indicating that Utz Brands is being referred to more favorably in the media.
96.0% of Utz Brands shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.1% of Immunovant shares are held by institutional investors. 17.0% of Utz Brands shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.8% of Immunovant shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Utz Brands currently has a consensus price target of $20.42, suggesting a potential upside of 10.78%. Immunovant has a consensus price target of $48.75, suggesting a potential upside of 93.68%. Given Utz Brands' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Immunovant is more favorable than Utz Brands.
Summary
Utz Brands beats Immunovant on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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