HIK vs. HCM, INDV, CTEC, ONT, GNS, SN, BMK, APH, BXP, and AGY
Should you be buying Hikma Pharmaceuticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hikma Pharmaceuticals include HUTCHMED (HCM), Indivior (INDV), ConvaTec Group (CTEC), Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT), Genus (GNS), Smith & Nephew (SN), Benchmark (BMK), Alliance Pharma (APH), Beximco Pharmaceuticals (BXP), and Allergy Therapeutics (AGY). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
HUTCHMED (LON:HCM) and Hikma Pharmaceuticals (LON:HIK) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
32.4% of HUTCHMED shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.3% of Hikma Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. 42.9% of HUTCHMED shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 30.7% of Hikma Pharmaceuticals shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, HUTCHMED and HUTCHMED both had 1 articles in the media. HUTCHMED's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Hikma Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.27 indicating that Hikma Pharmaceuticals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Hikma Pharmaceuticals has higher revenue and earnings than HUTCHMED. HUTCHMED is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hikma Pharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hikma Pharmaceuticals received 602 more outperform votes than HUTCHMED when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 78.40% of users gave HUTCHMED an outperform vote while only 70.74% of users gave Hikma Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote.
HUTCHMED has a net margin of 12.03% compared to HUTCHMED's net margin of 6.61%. Hikma Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of 14.65% beat HUTCHMED's return on equity.
HUTCHMED has a beta of 0.66, meaning that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hikma Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.45, meaning that its share price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Hikma Pharmaceuticals has a consensus price target of GBX 2,018.75, suggesting a potential upside of 5.23%. Given HUTCHMED's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Hikma Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than HUTCHMED.
Summary
Hikma Pharmaceuticals beats HUTCHMED on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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