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BIIB vs. REGN, ALNY, UTHR, INCY, NBIX, EXEL, BMRN, EXAS, HALO, and RGEN

Should you be buying Biogen stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Biogen include Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (REGN), Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (ALNY), United Therapeutics (UTHR), Incyte (INCY), Neurocrine Biosciences (NBIX), Exelixis (EXEL), BioMarin Pharmaceutical (BMRN), Exact Sciences (EXAS), Halozyme Therapeutics (HALO), and Repligen (RGEN). These companies are all part of the "biotechnology" industry.

Biogen vs.

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:REGN) and Biogen (NASDAQ:BIIB) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations and profitability.

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals presently has a consensus target price of $836.48, indicating a potential upside of 59.74%. Biogen has a consensus target price of $191.30, indicating a potential upside of 41.22%. Given Regeneron Pharmaceuticals' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Regeneron Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than Biogen.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
1 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
17 Buy rating(s)
3 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.85
Biogen
0 Sell rating(s)
20 Hold rating(s)
12 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.38

In the previous week, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals had 20 more articles in the media than Biogen. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and 9 mentions for Biogen. Biogen's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat Regeneron Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.44 indicating that Biogen is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
15 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
8 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Biogen
7 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

83.3% of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.9% of Biogen shares are held by institutional investors. 7.0% of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Biogen shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Biogen received 258 more outperform votes than Regeneron Pharmaceuticals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.28% of users gave Biogen an outperform vote while only 66.95% of users gave Regeneron Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Regeneron PharmaceuticalsOutperform Votes
1566
66.95%
Underperform Votes
773
33.05%
BiogenOutperform Votes
1824
71.28%
Underperform Votes
735
28.72%

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals$14.09B4.01$4.41B$39.2813.33
Biogen$9.82B2.02$1.63B$10.1313.37

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.31, indicating that its stock price is 69% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Biogen has a beta of 0.14, indicating that its stock price is 86% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has a net margin of 31.07% compared to Biogen's net margin of 16.87%. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of 16.32% beat Biogen's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals31.07% 16.32% 12.76%
Biogen 16.87%14.98%8.76%

Summary

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals beats Biogen on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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BIIB vs. The Competition

MetricBiogenBiological Products IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$19.87B$3.11B$5.57B$8.65B
Dividend YieldN/A1.59%5.27%4.19%
P/E Ratio12.1233.8027.3520.19
Price / Sales2.02479.10413.54162.98
Price / Cash6.09168.6838.2534.64
Price / Book1.183.497.164.73
Net Income$1.63B-$72.35M$3.23B$247.88M
7 Day Performance2.74%10.36%6.29%4.30%
1 Month Performance14.60%24.12%15.03%10.61%
1 Year Performance-40.06%-15.32%32.66%15.07%

Biogen Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BIIB
Biogen
4.7996 of 5 stars
$135.49
+1.0%
$191.30
+41.2%
-40.5%$19.85B$9.82B12.118,720Positive News
REGN
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
4.8323 of 5 stars
$496.76
+1.3%
$847.40
+70.6%
-48.4%$53.62B$14.09B12.9711,900Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
ALNY
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
3.9381 of 5 stars
$304.12
-0.1%
$319.17
+4.9%
+99.0%$39.66B$2.35B-140.172,000
UTHR
United Therapeutics
4.9653 of 5 stars
$325.81
+2.2%
$393.00
+20.6%
+19.4%$14.71B$2.99B14.32980Trending News
Insider Trade
Analyst Revision
INCY
Incyte
4.2963 of 5 stars
$65.47
+0.6%
$73.60
+12.4%
+18.1%$12.68B$4.41B242.582,320Positive News
NBIX
Neurocrine Biosciences
4.9489 of 5 stars
$123.93
+0.7%
$162.00
+30.7%
-6.8%$12.27B$2.41B37.691,200Analyst Revision
EXEL
Exelixis
4.5521 of 5 stars
$42.70
-0.8%
$38.94
-8.8%
+96.2%$11.64B$2.30B24.121,220Positive News
BMRN
BioMarin Pharmaceutical
4.8958 of 5 stars
$57.28
-1.4%
$93.45
+63.2%
-29.5%$10.99B$2.95B26.053,080Positive News
Analyst Revision
EXAS
Exact Sciences
4.385 of 5 stars
$55.66
-1.1%
$70.90
+27.4%
+27.3%$10.49B$2.83B-9.996,400Positive News
HALO
Halozyme Therapeutics
4.8617 of 5 stars
$55.17
-1.6%
$61.90
+12.2%
+6.9%$6.80B$1.08B16.09390
RGEN
Repligen
4.8297 of 5 stars
$119.50
+1.2%
$173.25
+45.0%
-9.7%$6.72B$650.43M-234.382,020

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This page (NASDAQ:BIIB) was last updated on 6/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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