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Uniphar (UPR) Competitors

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GBX 250 -2.00 (-0.79%)
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UPR vs. UDG, ABC, HCM, CLIN, EMIS, ONT, GNS, INDV, VEC, and CTH

Should you be buying Uniphar stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Uniphar include UDG Healthcare (UDG), Abcam (ABC), HUTCHMED (HCM), Clinigen Group (CLIN), EMIS Group (EMIS), Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT), Genus (GNS), Indivior (INDV), Vectura Group (VEC), and CareTech (CTH). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.

Uniphar vs.

UDG Healthcare (LON:UDG) and Uniphar (LON:UPR) are both medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, dividends and community ranking.

45.3% of Uniphar shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.1% of Uniphar shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

UDG Healthcare received 511 more outperform votes than Uniphar when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Uniphar an outperform vote while only 74.68% of users gave UDG Healthcare an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
UDG HealthcareOutperform Votes
519
74.68%
Underperform Votes
176
25.32%
UnipharOutperform Votes
8
100.00%
Underperform Votes
No Votes

Uniphar has a net margin of 1.68% compared to UDG Healthcare's net margin of 0.00%. Uniphar's return on equity of 13.18% beat UDG Healthcare's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
UDG HealthcareN/A N/A N/A
Uniphar 1.68%13.18%3.76%

In the previous week, Uniphar had 2 more articles in the media than UDG Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Uniphar and 0 mentions for UDG Healthcare. Uniphar's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat UDG Healthcare's score of 0.00 indicating that Uniphar is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
UDG Healthcare Neutral
Uniphar Neutral

UDG Healthcare pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.17 per share. Uniphar pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. UDG Healthcare pays out 0.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Uniphar pays out 13.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

Uniphar has higher revenue and earnings than UDG Healthcare. UDG Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Uniphar, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
UDG Healthcare£1.25B0.00N/A£25.40N/A
Uniphar£3.03B0.26£51.04M£14.3817.61

Uniphar has a consensus price target of GBX 310, suggesting a potential upside of 22.43%. Given Uniphar's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Uniphar is more favorable than UDG Healthcare.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
UDG Healthcare
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Uniphar
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Summary

Uniphar beats UDG Healthcare on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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UPR vs. The Competition

MetricUnipharMedical Distribution IndustryMedical SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£788.17M£397.80M£5.53B£2.56B
Dividend Yield0.77%1.33%5.11%4.97%
P/E Ratio17.615.5122.51132.50
Price / Sales0.2613.07397.62227,865.53
Price / Cash9.979.9738.1828.11
Price / Book1.981.966.734.54
Net Income£51.04M£51.04M£3.22B£5.84B
7 Day Performance6.08%2.90%1.38%2.70%
1 Month Performance9.14%-0.27%2.79%9.91%
1 Year Performance16.15%-6.41%15.41%114.85%

Uniphar Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
UPR
Uniphar
1.7589 of 5 stars
GBX 250
-0.8%
GBX 310
+24.0%
+14.7%£778.21M£3.03B17.383,000Gap Up
UDG
UDG Healthcare
N/AN/AN/AN/A£2.72B£1.25B42.489,000
ABC
Abcam
N/AN/AN/AN/A£2.81B£350.40M20,433.331,650Gap Up
High Trading Volume
HCM
HUTCHMED
N/AGBX 235
+10.8%
N/A-25.3%£2.55B£771.01M-59.981,760Gap Up
CLIN
Clinigen Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.23B£565.60M64.691,000
EMIS
EMIS Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.23B£176.86M4,085.111,560
ONT
Oxford Nanopore Technologies
1.5948 of 5 stars
GBX 117.90
flat
GBX 233.33
+97.9%
+21.1%£1.12B£184.78M-6.351,281Insider Trade
GNS
Genus
1.3158 of 5 stars
GBX 1,606
-0.7%
GBX 2,150
+33.9%
+10.7%£1.05B£666.67M133.12480Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
INDV
Indivior
2.2901 of 5 stars
GBX 660
-4.1%
GBX 1,650
+150.0%
-38.1%£1.03B£1.40B-547.241,000
VEC
Vectura Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.01B£190.60M8.209,200
CTH
CareTech
N/AN/AN/AN/A£850.02M£495.40M10,714.2911,000

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This page (LON:UPR) was last updated on 5/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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