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$49.42 +2.27 (+4.81%)
As of 04/30/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

IRON vs. LEGN, SRPT, TLX, ADMA, BPMC, VRNA, NUVL, AXSM, GRFS, and CYTK

Should you be buying Disc Medicine stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Disc Medicine include Legend Biotech (LEGN), Sarepta Therapeutics (SRPT), Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited American Depositary Shares (TLX), ADMA Biologics (ADMA), Blueprint Medicines (BPMC), Verona Pharma (VRNA), Nuvalent (NUVL), Axsome Therapeutics (AXSM), Grifols (GRFS), and Cytokinetics (CYTK). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Disc Medicine vs.

Disc Medicine (NASDAQ:IRON) and Legend Biotech (NASDAQ:LEGN) are both medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation and media sentiment.

Disc Medicine presently has a consensus price target of $93.80, suggesting a potential upside of 89.80%. Legend Biotech has a consensus price target of $78.82, suggesting a potential upside of 125.52%. Given Legend Biotech's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Legend Biotech is more favorable than Disc Medicine.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Disc Medicine
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
10 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.09
Legend Biotech
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
11 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.92

Disc Medicine has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Legend Biotech. Legend Biotech is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Disc Medicine, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Disc MedicineN/AN/A-$76.43M-$3.99-12.39
Legend Biotech$627.24M10.23-$518.25M-$0.48-72.81

Disc Medicine has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Legend Biotech's net margin of -66.92%. Disc Medicine's return on equity of -25.24% beat Legend Biotech's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Disc MedicineN/A -25.24% -23.96%
Legend Biotech -66.92%-29.69%-19.45%

Disc Medicine has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Legend Biotech has a beta of 0.21, suggesting that its share price is 79% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Legend Biotech received 32 more outperform votes than Disc Medicine when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 86.57% of users gave Disc Medicine an outperform vote while only 72.58% of users gave Legend Biotech an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Disc MedicineOutperform Votes
58
86.57%
Underperform Votes
9
13.43%
Legend BiotechOutperform Votes
90
72.58%
Underperform Votes
34
27.42%

83.7% of Disc Medicine shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.9% of Legend Biotech shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.2% of Disc Medicine shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Legend Biotech shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Legend Biotech had 1 more articles in the media than Disc Medicine. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Legend Biotech and 8 mentions for Disc Medicine. Disc Medicine's average media sentiment score of 1.55 beat Legend Biotech's score of 1.25 indicating that Disc Medicine is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Disc Medicine
7 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
Legend Biotech
5 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Disc Medicine beats Legend Biotech on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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IRON vs. The Competition

MetricDisc MedicinePharmaceutical IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$1.71B$6.89B$5.57B$7.82B
Dividend YieldN/A3.06%5.11%4.22%
P/E Ratio-12.427.4422.4418.48
Price / SalesN/A242.66394.66103.91
Price / CashN/A65.8538.1834.62
Price / Book3.496.516.774.25
Net Income-$76.43M$143.21M$3.22B$248.23M
7 Day Performance9.46%3.97%3.09%3.29%
1 Month Performance-5.61%0.37%-0.14%2.43%
1 Year Performance77.51%2.59%17.98%5.54%

Disc Medicine Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
IRON
Disc Medicine
2.3669 of 5 stars
$49.42
+4.8%
$93.80
+89.8%
+77.5%$1.71BN/A-12.4230Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
Positive News
LEGN
Legend Biotech
2.6249 of 5 stars
$34.70
+1.2%
$78.82
+127.1%
-20.1%$6.37B$627.24M-36.531,070
SRPT
Sarepta Therapeutics
4.7326 of 5 stars
$61.51
+1.8%
$158.70
+158.0%
-50.7%$5.97B$1.90B49.21840
TLX
Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited American Depositary Shares
N/A$17.57
-6.5%
$22.00
+25.2%
N/A$5.94B$783.21M0.00N/AAnalyst Revision
News Coverage
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
ADMA
ADMA Biologics
1.4801 of 5 stars
$24.51
+12.1%
$22.50
-8.2%
+265.0%$5.82B$426.45M87.54530Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
BPMC
Blueprint Medicines
2.5608 of 5 stars
$88.51
+1.0%
$124.53
+40.7%
-2.0%$5.66B$508.82M-81.95640Analyst Forecast
Positive News
VRNA
Verona Pharma
2.9049 of 5 stars
$68.83
+5.1%
$78.50
+14.0%
+366.5%$5.56B$42.28M-35.8530Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
Positive News
NUVL
Nuvalent
1.8884 of 5 stars
$75.20
+2.3%
$115.50
+53.6%
+11.4%$5.38BN/A-21.6740Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
AXSM
Axsome Therapeutics
4.8344 of 5 stars
$107.24
+0.9%
$169.80
+58.3%
+52.2%$5.23B$385.69M-17.90380Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↓
Positive News
GRFS
Grifols
3.8779 of 5 stars
$7.15
-0.8%
N/A+8.1%$4.92B$7.21B6.1126,300Short Interest ↓
Positive News
CYTK
Cytokinetics
4.2611 of 5 stars
$41.22
+2.0%
$79.13
+92.0%
-30.1%$4.91B$18.47M-7.66250Upcoming Earnings
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