HCM vs. INDV, HIK, GNS, SPI, ONT, CRW, CTEC, SN, BMK, and APH
Should you be buying HUTCHMED stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HUTCHMED include Indivior (INDV), Hikma Pharmaceuticals (HIK), Genus (GNS), Spire Healthcare Group (SPI), Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT), Craneware (CRW), ConvaTec Group (CTEC), Smith & Nephew (SN), Benchmark (BMK), and Alliance Pharma (APH). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
HUTCHMED (LON:HCM) and Indivior (LON:INDV) are both medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings and analyst recommendations.
HUTCHMED has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Indivior. HUTCHMED is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Indivior, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
32.3% of HUTCHMED shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.9% of Indivior shares are owned by institutional investors. 42.9% of HUTCHMED shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of Indivior shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Indivior had 3 more articles in the media than HUTCHMED. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Indivior and 1 mentions for HUTCHMED. HUTCHMED's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat Indivior's score of 0.28 indicating that HUTCHMED is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Indivior received 360 more outperform votes than HUTCHMED when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.35% of users gave Indivior an outperform vote while only 78.40% of users gave HUTCHMED an outperform vote.
Indivior has a consensus price target of GBX 2,515, indicating a potential upside of 76.12%. Given Indivior's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Indivior is more favorable than HUTCHMED.
HUTCHMED has a net margin of 12.03% compared to Indivior's net margin of 0.18%. HUTCHMED's return on equity of 14.65% beat Indivior's return on equity.
HUTCHMED has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Indivior has a beta of -0.05, suggesting that its share price is 105% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Indivior beats HUTCHMED on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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