GSK vs. AZN, SOPH, ITH, HCM, GRI, INDV, SLS, ERGO, SLN, and BMY
Should you be buying GSK stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GSK include AstraZeneca (AZN), Sophos Group plc (SOPH.L) (SOPH), Ithaca Energy (ITH), HUTCHMED (HCM), Grainger (GRI), Indivior (INDV), Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust (SLS), Ergomed (ERGO), Silence Therapeutics (SLN), and Bloomsbury Publishing (BMY). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.
GSK vs.
AstraZeneca (LON:AZN) and GSK (LON:GSK) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.
AstraZeneca currently has a consensus target price of GBX 6,303.50, suggesting a potential downside of 41.38%. GSK has a consensus target price of GBX 1,805.83, suggesting a potential upside of 21.81%. Given GSK's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe GSK is more favorable than AstraZeneca.
AstraZeneca has higher revenue and earnings than GSK. GSK is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AstraZeneca, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
51.0% of AstraZeneca shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.3% of GSK shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of AstraZeneca shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of GSK shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
AstraZeneca pays an annual dividend of GBX 234 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. GSK pays an annual dividend of GBX 60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. AstraZeneca pays out 64.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. GSK pays out 96.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
AstraZeneca has a net margin of 13.01% compared to GSK's net margin of 8.02%. GSK's return on equity of 18.08% beat AstraZeneca's return on equity.
In the previous week, AstraZeneca and AstraZeneca both had 9 articles in the media. GSK's average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat AstraZeneca's score of 0.24 indicating that GSK is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
AstraZeneca has a beta of 0.17, suggesting that its stock price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GSK has a beta of 0.31, suggesting that its stock price is 69% less volatile than the S&P 500.
AstraZeneca received 773 more outperform votes than GSK when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.77% of users gave AstraZeneca an outperform vote while only 50.37% of users gave GSK an outperform vote.
Summary
AstraZeneca beats GSK on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:GSK) was last updated on 4/30/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff