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

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

Incyte vs. Its Competitors

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

Incyte presently has a consensus price target of $74.53, indicating a potential upside of 8.76%. Alnylam Pharmaceuticals has a consensus price target of $340.00, indicating a potential upside of 4.89%. Given Incyte's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Incyte is more favorable than Alnylam Pharmaceuticals.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Incyte
1 Sell rating(s)
12 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.22
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
1 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
20 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.79

97.0% of Incyte shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.0% of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. 17.8% of Incyte shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Incyte has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.23, suggesting that its stock price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Incyte$4.24B3.13$32.62M$0.32214.16
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals$2.25B18.80-$278.16M-$2.09-155.10

Incyte has a net margin of 0.48% compared to Alnylam Pharmaceuticals' net margin of -11.49%. Incyte's return on equity of 2.77% beat Alnylam Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Incyte0.48% 2.77% 1.77%
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals -11.49%-510.31%-6.48%

In the previous week, Incyte had 4 more articles in the media than Alnylam Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Incyte and 25 mentions for Alnylam Pharmaceuticals. Alnylam Pharmaceuticals' average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Incyte's score of 0.55 indicating that Alnylam Pharmaceuticals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Incyte
11 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
15 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
14 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Incyte beats Alnylam Pharmaceuticals on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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INCY vs. The Competition

MetricIncyteMED IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$13.27B$2.90B$5.51B$8.92B
Dividend YieldN/A2.69%5.38%4.12%
P/E Ratio214.2021.4026.2119.84
Price / Sales3.13279.63415.30113.63
Price / Cash123.0141.8936.4957.06
Price / Book3.837.358.005.32
Net Income$32.62M-$55.05M$3.15B$248.42M
7 Day Performance1.45%2.02%1.72%2.50%
1 Month Performance4.93%6.76%4.63%5.53%
1 Year Performance16.12%4.83%35.87%19.65%

Incyte Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
INCY
Incyte
4.3621 of 5 stars
$68.44
-0.4%
$74.53
+8.9%
+12.9%$13.25B$4.24B213.842,617
ALNY
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
4.2833 of 5 stars
$313.13
+1.1%
$319.58
+2.1%
+32.4%$40.83B$2.25B-149.822,230Analyst Forecast
BIIB
Biogen
4.9742 of 5 stars
$124.76
-1.8%
$188.19
+50.8%
-43.9%$18.28B$9.68B12.327,605
UTHR
United Therapeutics
4.9941 of 5 stars
$286.39
-1.5%
$393.08
+37.3%
-8.8%$12.92B$2.88B11.431,305Positive News
Analyst Forecast
NBIX
Neurocrine Biosciences
4.7737 of 5 stars
$125.80
-0.6%
$162.00
+28.8%
-8.6%$12.45B$2.36B42.641,800Positive News
EXEL
Exelixis
4.7384 of 5 stars
$43.37
+7.4%
$41.00
-5.5%
+96.0%$11.83B$2.17B19.711,147Positive News
Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
BMRN
BioMarin Pharmaceutical
4.9447 of 5 stars
$54.08
-1.7%
$93.45
+72.8%
-31.6%$10.37B$2.95B20.103,040Positive News
EXAS
Exact Sciences
4.8821 of 5 stars
$52.54
-0.9%
$70.90
+34.9%
+28.7%$9.91B$2.76B-9.547,000Positive News
Analyst Revision
RGEN
Repligen
4.7966 of 5 stars
$120.11
+1.1%
$173.25
+44.2%
+2.5%$6.75B$634.44M-266.911,778Positive News
Analyst Downgrade
HALO
Halozyme Therapeutics
4.8482 of 5 stars
$52.80
0.0%
$61.90
+17.2%
+1.7%$6.51B$1.02B14.04390Analyst Revision
MDGL
Madrigal Pharmaceuticals
3.9676 of 5 stars
$282.99
-1.0%
$420.63
+48.6%
+7.5%$6.28B$180.13M-15.6890

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This page (NASDAQ:INCY) was last updated on 7/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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