RPRX vs. BGNE, ALNY, CTLT, JAZZ, HZNP, PRGO, CORT, SUPN, PCRX, and NKTR
Should you be buying Royalty Pharma stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Royalty Pharma include BeiGene (BGNE), Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (ALNY), Catalent (CTLT), Jazz Pharmaceuticals (JAZZ), Horizon Therapeutics Public (HZNP), Perrigo (PRGO), Corcept Therapeutics (CORT), Supernus Pharmaceuticals (SUPN), Pacira BioSciences (PCRX), and Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Royalty Pharma (NASDAQ:RPRX) and BeiGene (NASDAQ:BGNE) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking, risk and dividends.
Royalty Pharma has higher earnings, but lower revenue than BeiGene. BeiGene is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Royalty Pharma, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Royalty Pharma currently has a consensus target price of $43.00, indicating a potential upside of 56.59%. BeiGene has a consensus target price of $251.93, indicating a potential upside of 61.12%. Given BeiGene's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe BeiGene is more favorable than Royalty Pharma.
54.4% of Royalty Pharma shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.6% of BeiGene shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.9% of Royalty Pharma shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.4% of BeiGene shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Royalty Pharma has a net margin of 35.70% compared to BeiGene's net margin of -28.39%. Royalty Pharma's return on equity of 22.94% beat BeiGene's return on equity.
Royalty Pharma has a beta of 0.47, suggesting that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BeiGene has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Royalty Pharma had 3 more articles in the media than BeiGene. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Royalty Pharma and 8 mentions for BeiGene. BeiGene's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Royalty Pharma's score of 0.72 indicating that BeiGene is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
BeiGene received 224 more outperform votes than Royalty Pharma when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.14% of users gave BeiGene an outperform vote while only 67.81% of users gave Royalty Pharma an outperform vote.
Summary
Royalty Pharma beats BeiGene on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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