NEOG vs. CLDX, NTLA, MYGN, VIVO, XRAY, MMSI, HAE, QDEL, ICUI, and STAA
Should you be buying Neogen stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Neogen include Celldex Therapeutics (CLDX), Intellia Therapeutics (NTLA), Myriad Genetics (MYGN), Meridian Bioscience (VIVO), DENTSPLY SIRONA (XRAY), Merit Medical Systems (MMSI), Haemonetics (HAE), QuidelOrtho (QDEL), ICU Medical (ICUI), and STAAR Surgical (STAA). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Neogen (NASDAQ:NEOG) and Celldex Therapeutics (NASDAQ:CLDX) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, valuation and community ranking.
Neogen presently has a consensus target price of $22.50, suggesting a potential upside of 39.66%. Celldex Therapeutics has a consensus target price of $66.00, suggesting a potential upside of 87.07%. Given Celldex Therapeutics' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Celldex Therapeutics is more favorable than Neogen.
Celldex Therapeutics received 271 more outperform votes than Neogen when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.94% of users gave Celldex Therapeutics an outperform vote while only 57.19% of users gave Neogen an outperform vote.
96.7% of Neogen shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Neogen shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of Celldex Therapeutics shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Celldex Therapeutics had 10 more articles in the media than Neogen. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Celldex Therapeutics and 7 mentions for Neogen. Neogen's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Celldex Therapeutics' score of 0.34 indicating that Neogen is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Neogen has a net margin of 0.17% compared to Celldex Therapeutics' net margin of -2,385.57%. Neogen's return on equity of 3.35% beat Celldex Therapeutics' return on equity.
Neogen has higher revenue and earnings than Celldex Therapeutics. Celldex Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Neogen, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Neogen has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Celldex Therapeutics has a beta of 1.47, indicating that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Neogen and Celldex Therapeutics tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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