Uniphar (UPR) Competitors

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

Is UPR or UDG more profitable?

Uniphar has a net margin of 1.69% compared to UDG Healthcare's net margin of 0.00%. Uniphar's return on equity of 13.91% beat UDG Healthcare's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Uniphar	1.69%	13.91%	3.76%
UDG Healthcare	N/A	N/A	N/A

Which has higher earnings and valuation, UPR or UDG?

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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Uniphar	£2.68B	0.21	£45.17M	£0.14	1,500.00
UDG Healthcare	£1.25B	2.18	N/A	£25.40	42.48

Does the MarketBeat Community favor UPR or UDG?

UDG Healthcare received 513 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.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Uniphar	Outperform Votes 6 100.00%	Underperform Votes No Votes
UDG Healthcare	Outperform Votes 519 74.68%	Underperform Votes 176 25.32%

Do analysts rate UPR or UDG?

Uniphar currently has a consensus price target of GBX 310, suggesting a potential upside of 47.62%. Given Uniphar's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Uniphar is more favorable than UDG Healthcare.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Uniphar	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
UDG Healthcare	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A

Do institutionals and insiders believe in UPR or UDG?

45.9% of Uniphar shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.1% of Uniphar shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is UPR or UDG a better dividend stock?

Uniphar pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. UDG Healthcare pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Uniphar pays out 1,428.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. UDG Healthcare pays out 0.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Does the media prefer UPR or UDG?

In the previous week, UDG Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat Uniphar's score of 0.00 indicating that UDG Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Uniphar	Neutral
UDG Healthcare	Neutral

Summary

Uniphar beats UDG Healthcare on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.