MDGL vs. DRNA, RCKT, ICPT, YMAB, GBIO, ALNY, BMRN, NBIX, INCY, and UTHR
Should you be buying Madrigal Pharmaceuticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Madrigal Pharmaceuticals include Dicerna Pharmaceuticals (DRNA), Rocket Pharmaceuticals (RCKT), Intercept Pharmaceuticals (ICPT), Y-mAbs Therapeutics (YMAB), Generation Bio (GBIO), Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (ALNY), BioMarin Pharmaceutical (BMRN), Neurocrine Biosciences (NBIX), Incyte (INCY), and United Therapeutics (UTHR). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Dicerna Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:DRNA) and Madrigal Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:MDGL) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
78.9% of Dicerna Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.5% of Madrigal Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.2% of Dicerna Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 23.9% of Madrigal Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Madrigal Pharmaceuticals has a consensus target price of $345.09, suggesting a potential upside of 41.23%. Given Dicerna Pharmaceuticals' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Madrigal Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than Dicerna Pharmaceuticals.
Dicerna Pharmaceuticals has higher revenue and earnings than Madrigal Pharmaceuticals. Dicerna Pharmaceuticals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Madrigal Pharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Madrigal Pharmaceuticals had 8 more articles in the media than Dicerna Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Madrigal Pharmaceuticals and 0 mentions for Dicerna Pharmaceuticals. Dicerna Pharmaceuticals' average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Madrigal Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.00 indicating that Madrigal Pharmaceuticals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Dicerna Pharmaceuticals received 4 more outperform votes than Madrigal Pharmaceuticals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.49% of users gave Madrigal Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 62.79% of users gave Dicerna Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote.
Madrigal Pharmaceuticals has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Madrigal Pharmaceuticals' net margin of -64.53%. Madrigal Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of -103.08% beat Dicerna Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.
Dicerna Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Madrigal Pharmaceuticals has a beta of -0.41, suggesting that its stock price is 141% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Madrigal Pharmaceuticals beats Dicerna Pharmaceuticals on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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