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

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

Biogen vs. Its Competitors

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

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has a net margin of 31.94% compared to Biogen's net margin of 15.07%. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of 15.27% beat Biogen's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals31.94% 15.27% 11.93%
Biogen 15.07%14.03%8.32%

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

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals currently has a consensus price target of $813.57, suggesting a potential upside of 54.96%. Biogen has a consensus price target of $188.48, suggesting a potential upside of 50.08%. Given Regeneron Pharmaceuticals' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly 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)
6 Hold rating(s)
15 Buy rating(s)
3 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.80
Biogen
0 Sell rating(s)
20 Hold rating(s)
12 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.38

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals$14.20B3.99$4.41B$39.2813.37
Biogen$9.68B1.90$1.63B$10.1312.40

In the previous week, Biogen had 3 more articles in the media than Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for Biogen and 37 mentions for Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. Biogen's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Regeneron Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.81 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
17 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
8 Neutral mention(s)
3 Negative mention(s)
3 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Biogen
21 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
14 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

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

Summary

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals beats Biogen on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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BIIB vs. The Competition

MetricBiogenMED IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$18.47B$2.84B$5.45B$8.90B
Dividend YieldN/A2.70%5.36%4.13%
P/E Ratio12.4021.1526.4219.67
Price / Sales1.90259.81406.85110.30
Price / Cash5.4641.2925.8827.49
Price / Book1.097.247.915.42
Net Income$1.63B-$55.05M$3.15B$248.34M
7 Day Performance-0.57%-1.01%0.62%0.81%
1 Month Performance-4.21%5.98%4.94%5.01%
1 Year Performance-45.81%0.83%32.26%18.10%

Biogen Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BIIB
Biogen
4.9528 of 5 stars
$125.94
-0.1%
$188.48
+49.7%
-45.8%$18.38B$9.68B12.387,605
REGN
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
4.9315 of 5 stars
$511.66
+0.4%
$836.48
+63.5%
-50.0%$55.24B$14.20B13.0315,106Analyst Downgrade
ALNY
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
4.2615 of 5 stars
$314.21
+1.5%
$319.58
+1.7%
+34.2%$40.97B$2.25B-150.342,230Positive News
Analyst Forecast
INCY
Incyte
4.3408 of 5 stars
$67.63
-1.2%
$74.53
+10.2%
+12.3%$13.13B$4.24B212.012,617
UTHR
United Therapeutics
4.9941 of 5 stars
$286.02
-1.6%
$393.08
+37.4%
-9.8%$12.90B$2.88B11.411,305Analyst Forecast
NBIX
Neurocrine Biosciences
4.9115 of 5 stars
$127.34
+0.6%
$162.00
+27.2%
-8.7%$12.60B$2.36B43.151,800Positive News
EXEL
Exelixis
4.6547 of 5 stars
$43.80
+8.5%
$41.00
-6.4%
+96.2%$11.95B$2.17B19.911,147Positive News
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
BMRN
BioMarin Pharmaceutical
4.9491 of 5 stars
$54.23
-1.4%
$93.45
+72.3%
-33.2%$10.43B$2.95B20.223,040
EXAS
Exact Sciences
4.8659 of 5 stars
$52.27
-1.4%
$70.90
+35.6%
+25.8%$9.88B$2.76B-9.517,000
RGEN
Repligen
4.7786 of 5 stars
$117.89
-0.8%
$173.25
+47.0%
-1.3%$6.61B$634.44M-261.561,778Positive News
Analyst Downgrade
HALO
Halozyme Therapeutics
4.8325 of 5 stars
$52.72
-0.2%
$61.90
+17.4%
-0.6%$6.49B$1.02B14.02390Analyst Revision

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