APH vs. BXP, ANCR, AGY, EAH, CEL, VLG, BMK, HVO, AVCT, and TSTL
Should you be buying Alliance Pharma stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alliance Pharma include Beximco Pharmaceuticals (BXP), Animalcare Group (ANCR), Allergy Therapeutics (AGY), ECO Animal Health Group (EAH), Celadon Pharmaceuticals (CEL), Venture Life Group (VLG), Benchmark (BMK), hVIVO (HVO), Avacta Group (AVCT), and Tristel (TSTL). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Alliance Pharma (LON:APH) and Beximco Pharmaceuticals (LON:BXP) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Alliance Pharma received 95 more outperform votes than Beximco Pharmaceuticals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.67% of users gave Beximco Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 62.08% of users gave Alliance Pharma an outperform vote.
Alliance Pharma pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.7%. Beximco Pharmaceuticals pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. Alliance Pharma pays out -20,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Beximco Pharmaceuticals pays out 3,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
66.7% of Alliance Pharma shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.7% of Beximco Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. 11.8% of Alliance Pharma shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Beximco Pharmaceuticals has a net margin of 12.37% compared to Alliance Pharma's net margin of -4.15%. Beximco Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of 10.99% beat Alliance Pharma's return on equity.
Alliance Pharma currently has a consensus target price of GBX 80.75, indicating a potential upside of 131.04%. Given Alliance Pharma's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Alliance Pharma is more favorable than Beximco Pharmaceuticals.
In the previous week, Alliance Pharma had 3 more articles in the media than Beximco Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Alliance Pharma and 0 mentions for Beximco Pharmaceuticals. Beximco Pharmaceuticals' average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Alliance Pharma's score of 0.25 indicating that Beximco Pharmaceuticals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Alliance Pharma has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Beximco Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.64, suggesting that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Beximco Pharmaceuticals has higher revenue and earnings than Alliance Pharma. Alliance Pharma is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Beximco Pharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Beximco Pharmaceuticals beats Alliance Pharma on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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