NBIX vs. RGEN, EXEL, HALO, DNLI, ADPT, BIIB, TECH, QGEN, PCVX, and ARGX
Should you be buying Neurocrine Biosciences stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Neurocrine Biosciences include Repligen (RGEN), Exelixis (EXEL), Halozyme Therapeutics (HALO), Denali Therapeutics (DNLI), Adaptive Biotechnologies (ADPT), Biogen (BIIB), Bio-Techne (TECH), Qiagen (QGEN), Vaxcyte (PCVX), and argenx (ARGX). These companies are all part of the "biological products, except diagnostic" industry.
Repligen (NASDAQ:RGEN) and Neurocrine Biosciences (NASDAQ:NBIX) are both medical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.
Neurocrine Biosciences has higher revenue and earnings than Repligen. Neurocrine Biosciences is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Repligen, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Repligen presently has a consensus target price of $197.75, suggesting a potential upside of 25.03%. Neurocrine Biosciences has a consensus target price of $148.96, suggesting a potential upside of 6.86%. Given Neurocrine Biosciences' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Repligen is more favorable than Neurocrine Biosciences.
97.6% of Repligen shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.6% of Neurocrine Biosciences shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Repligen shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of Neurocrine Biosciences shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Repligen has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Neurocrine Biosciences has a beta of 0.28, indicating that its stock price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Repligen had 8 more articles in the media than Neurocrine Biosciences. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Repligen and 12 mentions for Neurocrine Biosciences. Repligen's average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat Neurocrine Biosciences' score of 0.73 indicating that Neurocrine Biosciences is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Neurocrine Biosciences received 582 more outperform votes than Repligen when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.58% of users gave Neurocrine Biosciences an outperform vote while only 68.08% of users gave Repligen an outperform vote.
Neurocrine Biosciences has a net margin of 18.65% compared to Neurocrine Biosciences' net margin of 2.44%. Repligen's return on equity of 17.45% beat Neurocrine Biosciences' return on equity.
Summary
Neurocrine Biosciences beats Repligen on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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