EXEL vs. HALO, RGEN, CRL, MEDP, NRC, NBIX, PCVX, RVMD, CRSP, and KRYS
Should you be buying Exelixis stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Exelixis include Halozyme Therapeutics (HALO), Repligen (RGEN), Charles River Laboratories International (CRL), Medpace (MEDP), National Research (NRC), Neurocrine Biosciences (NBIX), Vaxcyte (PCVX), Revolution Medicines (RVMD), CRISPR Therapeutics (CRSP), and Krystal Biotech (KRYS).
Exelixis (NASDAQ:EXEL) and Halozyme Therapeutics (NASDAQ:HALO) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.
Exelixis received 75 more outperform votes than Halozyme Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.02% of users gave Halozyme Therapeutics an outperform vote while only 68.09% of users gave Exelixis an outperform vote.
Exelixis has a beta of 0.54, meaning that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Halozyme Therapeutics has a beta of 1.25, meaning that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Halozyme Therapeutics has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Exelixis. Halozyme Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Exelixis, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Halozyme Therapeutics had 6 more articles in the media than Exelixis. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Halozyme Therapeutics and 12 mentions for Exelixis. Halozyme Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Exelixis' score of 0.49 indicating that Halozyme Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Halozyme Therapeutics has a net margin of 33.96% compared to Exelixis' net margin of 11.35%. Halozyme Therapeutics' return on equity of 248.20% beat Exelixis' return on equity.
85.3% of Exelixis shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.8% of Halozyme Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. 2.9% of Exelixis shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of Halozyme Therapeutics shares are held by 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.
Exelixis currently has a consensus target price of $26.29, suggesting a potential upside of 10.91%. Halozyme Therapeutics has a consensus target price of $53.29, suggesting a potential upside of 38.15%. Given Halozyme Therapeutics' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Halozyme Therapeutics is more favorable than Exelixis.
Summary
Halozyme Therapeutics beats Exelixis on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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