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Closing price 06/10/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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ACAD vs. ITCI, GMAB, SMMT, RDY, ASND, MRNA, VTRS, QGEN, BPMC, and ROIV

Should you be buying ACADIA Pharmaceuticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ACADIA Pharmaceuticals include Intra-Cellular Therapies (ITCI), Genmab A/S (GMAB), Summit Therapeutics (SMMT), Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (RDY), Ascendis Pharma A/S (ASND), Moderna (MRNA), Viatris (VTRS), Qiagen (QGEN), Blueprint Medicines (BPMC), and Roivant Sciences (ROIV). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

ACADIA Pharmaceuticals vs.

ACADIA Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ACAD) and Intra-Cellular Therapies (NASDAQ:ITCI) are both medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, risk and profitability.

ACADIA Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intra-Cellular Therapies has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.

ACADIA Pharmaceuticals currently has a consensus target price of $26.79, indicating a potential upside of 20.66%. Intra-Cellular Therapies has a consensus target price of $109.70, indicating a potential downside of 16.81%. Given ACADIA Pharmaceuticals' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe ACADIA Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than Intra-Cellular Therapies.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
ACADIA Pharmaceuticals
0 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
9 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.69
Intra-Cellular Therapies
0 Sell rating(s)
10 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.17

ACADIA Pharmaceuticals has a net margin of 13.83% compared to Intra-Cellular Therapies' net margin of -14.07%. ACADIA Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of 25.83% beat Intra-Cellular Therapies' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
ACADIA Pharmaceuticals13.83% 25.83% 14.71%
Intra-Cellular Therapies -14.07%-9.93%-8.38%

96.7% of ACADIA Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.3% of Intra-Cellular Therapies shares are held by institutional investors. 26.5% of ACADIA Pharmaceuticals shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Intra-Cellular Therapies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

ACADIA Pharmaceuticals has higher revenue and earnings than Intra-Cellular Therapies. Intra-Cellular Therapies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ACADIA Pharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
ACADIA Pharmaceuticals$996.28M3.73-$61.29M$1.3716.20
Intra-Cellular Therapies$680.50M20.64-$139.67M-$0.73-180.64

In the previous week, ACADIA Pharmaceuticals had 28 more articles in the media than Intra-Cellular Therapies. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for ACADIA Pharmaceuticals and 0 mentions for Intra-Cellular Therapies. ACADIA Pharmaceuticals' average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Intra-Cellular Therapies' score of 0.00 indicating that ACADIA Pharmaceuticals is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Positive
Intra-Cellular Therapies Neutral

ACADIA Pharmaceuticals received 386 more outperform votes than Intra-Cellular Therapies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.99% of users gave ACADIA Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 65.74% of users gave Intra-Cellular Therapies an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
ACADIA PharmaceuticalsOutperform Votes
908
72.99%
Underperform Votes
336
27.01%
Intra-Cellular TherapiesOutperform Votes
522
65.74%
Underperform Votes
272
34.26%

Summary

ACADIA Pharmaceuticals beats Intra-Cellular Therapies on 17 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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ACAD vs. The Competition

MetricACADIA PharmaceuticalsPharmaceutical IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$3.72B$6.83B$5.57B$8.67B
Dividend YieldN/A2.50%5.27%4.19%
P/E Ratio28.468.7927.2120.17
Price / Sales3.73263.51414.99161.94
Price / CashN/A65.8538.2534.64
Price / Book8.446.677.124.72
Net Income-$61.29M$143.49M$3.23B$247.80M
7 Day Performance1.98%5.15%3.80%2.76%
1 Month Performance27.29%15.43%13.40%9.71%
1 Year Performance47.70%6.02%32.04%14.51%

ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ACAD
ACADIA Pharmaceuticals
3.468 of 5 stars
$22.20
-0.4%
$26.79
+20.7%
+49.2%$3.72B$996.28M28.46510Trending News
Analyst Revision
ITCI
Intra-Cellular Therapies
0.9031 of 5 stars
$131.87
flat
$109.70
-16.8%
N/A$14.05B$680.50M-151.57560
GMAB
Genmab A/S
3.285 of 5 stars
$21.77
+3.9%
$39.17
+79.9%
-18.2%$13.96B$3.12B12.511,660Positive News
Gap Up
SMMT
Summit Therapeutics
3.0215 of 5 stars
$17.73
-2.7%
$37.40
+110.9%
+176.7%$13.17B$700,000.00-63.32110Analyst Revision
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
RDY
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories
1.2409 of 5 stars
$14.73
+0.0%
$17.00
+15.4%
+9.5%$12.29B$325.54B23.4524,800
ASND
Ascendis Pharma A/S
3.2894 of 5 stars
$175.69
+7.9%
$216.07
+23.0%
+31.1%$10.71B$368.70M-24.75640Positive News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
MRNA
Moderna
4.4393 of 5 stars
$27.05
+1.8%
$53.58
+98.1%
-81.4%$10.46B$3.14B-2.913,900Trending News
VTRS
Viatris
2.2307 of 5 stars
$8.69
-1.1%
$10.50
+20.8%
-14.0%$10.20B$14.33B-11.7437,000
QGEN
Qiagen
3.1584 of 5 stars
$44.89
-0.5%
$48.42
+7.9%
+6.0%$9.98B$2.00B125.006,030
BPMC
Blueprint Medicines
0.9085 of 5 stars
$127.79
+26.1%
$125.69
-1.6%
+23.0%$8.25B$562.12M-118.32640Positive News
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
ROIV
Roivant Sciences
2.3799 of 5 stars
$11.17
+1.6%
$17.50
+56.7%
+7.5%$7.97B$29.05M-74.46860

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This page (NASDAQ:ACAD) was last updated on 6/11/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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