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$29.88 +0.44 (+1.48%)
Closing price 07/3/2025 01:45 PM Eastern
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CRNX vs. QGEN, MRNA, ASND, VTRS, BPMC, BBIO, VRNA, ROIV, ELAN, and RVMD

Should you be buying Crinetics Pharmaceuticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crinetics Pharmaceuticals include Qiagen (QGEN), Moderna (MRNA), Ascendis Pharma A/S (ASND), Viatris (VTRS), Blueprint Medicines (BPMC), BridgeBio Pharma (BBIO), Verona Pharma PLC American Depositary Share (VRNA), Roivant Sciences (ROIV), Elanco Animal Health (ELAN), and Revolution Medicines (RVMD). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Crinetics Pharmaceuticals vs. Its Competitors

Crinetics Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:CRNX) and Qiagen (NYSE:QGEN) are both medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends and profitability.

98.5% of Crinetics Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.0% of Qiagen shares are held by institutional investors. 4.6% of Crinetics Pharmaceuticals shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.0% of Qiagen 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.

In the previous week, Qiagen had 3 more articles in the media than Crinetics Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Qiagen and 2 mentions for Crinetics Pharmaceuticals. Qiagen's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Crinetics Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.22 indicating that Qiagen is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Crinetics Pharmaceuticals
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Qiagen
2 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Crinetics Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.25, meaning that its stock price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Qiagen has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Crinetics Pharmaceuticals presently has a consensus target price of $71.75, suggesting a potential upside of 140.17%. Qiagen has a consensus target price of $49.40, suggesting a potential upside of 2.19%. Given Crinetics Pharmaceuticals' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Crinetics Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than Qiagen.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Crinetics Pharmaceuticals
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
9 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.90
Qiagen
0 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.30

Qiagen has a net margin of 4.68% compared to Crinetics Pharmaceuticals' net margin of 0.00%. Qiagen's return on equity of 14.61% beat Crinetics Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Crinetics PharmaceuticalsN/A -30.95% -28.12%
Qiagen 4.68%14.61%8.80%

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Crinetics Pharmaceuticals$1.04M2,689.61-$298.41M-$3.82-7.82
Qiagen$1.98B5.43$83.59M$0.40120.85

Summary

Qiagen beats Crinetics Pharmaceuticals on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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CRNX vs. The Competition

MetricCrinetics PharmaceuticalsMED IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$2.79B$2.43B$5.53B$9.05B
Dividend YieldN/A1.78%5.24%4.02%
P/E Ratio-7.829.1027.5120.24
Price / Sales2,689.61682.84416.89118.64
Price / CashN/A158.5936.8958.07
Price / Book2.094.588.035.67
Net Income-$298.41M$31.34M$3.18B$249.13M
7 Day Performance-0.28%3.25%2.90%3.28%
1 Month Performance-7.56%7.08%3.71%5.56%
1 Year Performance-31.84%0.17%36.03%21.13%

Crinetics Pharmaceuticals Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CRNX
Crinetics Pharmaceuticals
3.5658 of 5 stars
$29.88
+1.5%
$71.75
+140.2%
-32.4%$2.79B$1.04M-7.82210
QGEN
Qiagen
4.0446 of 5 stars
$48.07
+0.6%
$49.40
+2.8%
+22.5%$10.69B$1.98B120.525,765Dividend Announcement
MRNA
Moderna
4.3787 of 5 stars
$27.59
+1.6%
$46.61
+68.9%
-73.7%$10.67B$3.24B-3.165,800Options Volume
ASND
Ascendis Pharma A/S
3.6652 of 5 stars
$172.60
+0.2%
$220.67
+27.8%
+29.7%$10.55B$393.54M-27.481,017News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
VTRS
Viatris
3.306 of 5 stars
$8.93
-0.9%
$10.40
+16.5%
-10.9%$10.48B$14.74B-2.8232,000
BPMC
Blueprint Medicines
1.5713 of 5 stars
$128.18
+0.1%
$128.06
-0.1%
+17.6%$8.28B$562.12M-51.89640
BBIO
BridgeBio Pharma
4.7073 of 5 stars
$43.18
-3.7%
$58.85
+36.3%
+74.8%$8.20B$221.90M-12.23400News Coverage
Insider Trade
Analyst Revision
High Trading Volume
VRNA
Verona Pharma PLC American Depositary Share
2.6145 of 5 stars
$94.58
+0.8%
$101.10
+6.9%
+480.4%$8.05B$42.28M-47.2930Positive News
Analyst Forecast
ROIV
Roivant Sciences
1.5551 of 5 stars
$11.27
-1.1%
$17.50
+55.3%
+3.5%$7.66B$29.05M-45.08860
ELAN
Elanco Animal Health
2.2359 of 5 stars
$14.29
flat
$15.17
+6.1%
+3.6%$7.10B$4.44B19.319,000News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
RVMD
Revolution Medicines
4.589 of 5 stars
$36.79
-0.3%
$67.58
+83.7%
+0.2%$6.85B$11.58M-9.20250Analyst Revision

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This page (NASDAQ:CRNX) was last updated on 7/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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