VTRS vs. SRPT, BGNE, TEVA, BMRN, RDY, UTHR, CTLT, ROIV, VKTX, and GMAB
Should you be buying Viatris stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Viatris include Sarepta Therapeutics (SRPT), BeiGene (BGNE), Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (TEVA), BioMarin Pharmaceutical (BMRN), Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (RDY), United Therapeutics (UTHR), Catalent (CTLT), Roivant Sciences (ROIV), Viking Therapeutics (VKTX), and Genmab A/S (GMAB). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Viatris (NASDAQ:VTRS) and Sarepta Therapeutics (NASDAQ:SRPT) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, profitability and risk.
Sarepta Therapeutics received 1403 more outperform votes than Viatris when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.38% of users gave Sarepta Therapeutics an outperform vote while only 35.59% of users gave Viatris an outperform vote.
Viatris currently has a consensus price target of $11.00, indicating a potential downside of 6.86%. Sarepta Therapeutics has a consensus price target of $160.60, indicating a potential upside of 21.13%. Given Sarepta Therapeutics' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Sarepta Therapeutics is more favorable than Viatris.
Viatris has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sarepta Therapeutics has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Viatris has higher revenue and earnings than Sarepta Therapeutics. Viatris is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sarepta Therapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sarepta Therapeutics has a net margin of 1.20% compared to Viatris' net margin of 0.35%. Viatris' return on equity of 17.03% beat Sarepta Therapeutics' return on equity.
In the previous week, Sarepta Therapeutics had 45 more articles in the media than Viatris. MarketBeat recorded 48 mentions for Sarepta Therapeutics and 3 mentions for Viatris. Sarepta Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of 0.35 beat Viatris' score of 0.29 indicating that Sarepta Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
79.9% of Viatris shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.7% of Sarepta Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Viatris shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.7% of Sarepta Therapeutics shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Sarepta Therapeutics beats Viatris on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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