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Incyte (INCY) Competitors

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$72.75 -0.49 (-0.67%)
(As of 11:33 AM ET)

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

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), BioMarin Pharmaceutical (BMRN), Exact Sciences (EXAS), Exelixis (EXEL), Repligen (RGEN), Madrigal Pharmaceuticals (MDGL), and Halozyme Therapeutics (HALO). These companies are all part of the "biotechnology" industry.

Incyte vs.

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

Incyte has a net margin of 0.80% compared to Alnylam Pharmaceuticals' net margin of -15.86%. Alnylam Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of 0.00% beat Incyte's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals-15.86% N/A -8.38%
Incyte 0.80%-0.63%-0.45%

Incyte received 88 more outperform votes than Alnylam Pharmaceuticals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 76.14% of users gave Alnylam Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 72.77% of users gave Incyte an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Alnylam PharmaceuticalsOutperform Votes
1133
76.14%
Underperform Votes
355
23.86%
IncyteOutperform Votes
1221
72.77%
Underperform Votes
457
27.23%

93.0% of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.0% of Incyte shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 17.6% of Incyte shares are held by 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.

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.39, meaning that its share price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Incyte has a beta of 0.71, meaning that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals currently has a consensus price target of $298.09, indicating a potential upside of 17.82%. Incyte has a consensus price target of $77.16, indicating a potential upside of 5.35%. Given Alnylam Pharmaceuticals' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Alnylam Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than Incyte.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
1 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
18 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.71
Incyte
1 Sell rating(s)
11 Hold rating(s)
9 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.38

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
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals$1.83B17.85-$440.24M-$2.62-96.57
Incyte$3.70B3.82$597.60M$0.14523.18

In the previous week, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals had 7 more articles in the media than Incyte. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and 23 mentions for Incyte. Incyte's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Alnylam Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.70 indicating that Incyte is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
12 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
8 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Incyte
16 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Incyte beats Alnylam Pharmaceuticals on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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INCY vs. The Competition

MetricIncyteCommercial physical research IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$14.11B$4.57B$5.36B$8.94B
Dividend YieldN/A1.59%5.33%4.05%
P/E Ratio523.1858.65117.6718.00
Price / Sales3.8264.581,424.20155.72
Price / Cash30.6324.3542.8038.60
Price / Book4.453.457.356.66
Net Income$597.60M$139.66M$118.46M$224.93M
7 Day Performance-2.09%4.99%3.40%2.50%
1 Month Performance-3.80%21.79%2.49%10.24%
1 Year Performance35.58%23.18%36.17%30.14%

Incyte Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
INCY
Incyte
4.6683 of 5 stars
$72.75
-0.7%
$77.16
+6.1%
+35.6%$14.02B$3.70B519.682,524Short Interest ↓
ALNY
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
4.2156 of 5 stars
$253.94
+0.3%
$298.09
+17.4%
+47.6%$32.75B$1.83B-97.312,100Upcoming Earnings
BIIB
Biogen
4.9564 of 5 stars
$160.63
+0.5%
$257.20
+60.1%
-30.0%$23.41B$9.84B14.517,570Short Interest ↓
Positive News
UTHR
United Therapeutics
4.6343 of 5 stars
$370.62
+0.0%
$370.86
+0.1%
+53.7%$16.55B$2.33B16.271,168Positive News
NBIX
Neurocrine Biosciences
4.9227 of 5 stars
$126.75
+0.1%
$163.91
+29.3%
+7.5%$12.83B$1.89B33.981,400Positive News
BMRN
BioMarin Pharmaceutical
4.993 of 5 stars
$65.73
-0.5%
$94.20
+43.3%
-29.6%$12.53B$2.42B39.543,401Positive News
EXAS
Exact Sciences
4.5416 of 5 stars
$60.74
-2.2%
$75.29
+24.0%
-8.0%$11.24B$2.50B-53.066,600
EXEL
Exelixis
4.827 of 5 stars
$35.60
-2.4%
$31.44
-11.7%
+62.2%$10.17B$2.08B23.291,310Insider Trade
Short Interest ↓
RGEN
Repligen
4.62 of 5 stars
$151.85
+0.9%
$190.25
+25.3%
-8.8%$8.51B$638.76M-406.851,783Positive News
MDGL
Madrigal Pharmaceuticals
4.1518 of 5 stars
$320.00
-2.5%
$347.33
+8.5%
+49.5%$6.98BN/A-13.0990Positive News
HALO
Halozyme Therapeutics
4.986 of 5 stars
$48.39
+0.4%
$61.11
+26.3%
+22.4%$6.16B$829.25M15.96390

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This page (NASDAQ:INCY) was last updated on 12/3/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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