BIIB vs. AEP, NBIX, RGEN, PNW, CRSP, POR, DNLI, GILD, MRNA, and ARGX
Should you be buying Biogen stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Biogen include American Electric Power (AEP), Neurocrine Biosciences (NBIX), Repligen (RGEN), Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), CRISPR Therapeutics (CRSP), Portland General Electric (POR), Denali Therapeutics (DNLI), Gilead Sciences (GILD), Moderna (MRNA), and argenx (ARGX).
Biogen (NASDAQ:BIIB) and American Electric Power (NASDAQ:AEP) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership and profitability.
Biogen has a net margin of 11.81% compared to American Electric Power's net margin of 11.64%. Biogen's return on equity of 14.91% beat American Electric Power's return on equity.
Biogen has a beta of -0.03, meaning that its share price is 103% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Electric Power has a beta of 0.51, meaning that its share price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500.
86.0% of Biogen shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.7% of American Electric Power shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Biogen shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of American Electric Power shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Biogen received 1695 more outperform votes than American Electric Power when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.00% of users gave Biogen an outperform vote while only 55.81% of users gave American Electric Power an outperform vote.
Biogen currently has a consensus price target of $305.68, suggesting a potential upside of 39.33%. American Electric Power has a consensus price target of $87.08, suggesting a potential upside of 5.98%. Given Biogen's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Biogen is more favorable than American Electric Power.
American Electric Power has higher revenue and earnings than Biogen. American Electric Power is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Biogen, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Biogen had 2 more articles in the media than American Electric Power. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Biogen and 14 mentions for American Electric Power. Biogen's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat American Electric Power's score of 0.61 indicating that Biogen is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Biogen beats American Electric Power on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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