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Legend Biotech (LEGN) Competitors

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$42.07 -1.06 (-2.46%)
(As of 11/29/2024 ET)

LEGN vs. BNTX, TEVA, BGNE, MRNA, VTRS, SMMT, GMAB, RDY, PCVX, and CTLT

Should you be buying Legend Biotech stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Legend Biotech include BioNTech (BNTX), Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (TEVA), BeiGene (BGNE), Moderna (MRNA), Viatris (VTRS), Summit Therapeutics (SMMT), Genmab A/S (GMAB), Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (RDY), Vaxcyte (PCVX), and Catalent (CTLT). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Legend Biotech vs.

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

BioNTech currently has a consensus target price of $138.67, suggesting a potential upside of 17.13%. Legend Biotech has a consensus target price of $81.46, suggesting a potential upside of 93.63%. Given Legend Biotech's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Legend Biotech is more favorable than BioNTech.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
BioNTech
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
11 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.81
Legend Biotech
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
13 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

BioNTech has a beta of 0.26, meaning that its stock price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Legend Biotech has a beta of 0.11, meaning that its stock price is 89% less volatile than the S&P 500.

15.5% of BioNTech shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.9% of Legend Biotech shares are held by institutional investors. 19.2% of BioNTech shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Legend Biotech shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, BioNTech had 23 more articles in the media than Legend Biotech. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for BioNTech and 8 mentions for Legend Biotech. Legend Biotech's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat BioNTech's score of 0.60 indicating that Legend Biotech is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
BioNTech
10 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
13 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Legend Biotech
5 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

BioNTech has a net margin of -15.16% compared to Legend Biotech's net margin of -66.92%. BioNTech's return on equity of -2.35% beat Legend Biotech's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
BioNTech-15.16% -2.35% -2.05%
Legend Biotech -66.92%-29.69%-19.45%

BioNTech received 57 more outperform votes than Legend Biotech when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.80% of users gave Legend Biotech an outperform vote while only 45.51% of users gave BioNTech an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
BioNTechOutperform Votes
137
45.51%
Underperform Votes
164
54.49%
Legend BiotechOutperform Votes
80
70.80%
Underperform Votes
33
29.20%

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
BioNTech$4.13B6.87$1.01B-$2.10-56.38
Legend Biotech$285.14M27.07-$518.25M-$0.95-44.28

Summary

BioNTech beats Legend Biotech on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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LEGN vs. The Competition

MetricLegend BiotechPharmaceutical IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$7.72B$7.17B$5.55B$8.93B
Dividend YieldN/A7.97%5.36%4.04%
P/E Ratio-44.285.6875.3814.63
Price / Sales27.07352.801,304.93166.16
Price / CashN/A62.0544.5838.62
Price / Book6.9210.777.436.72
Net Income-$518.25M$153.05M$120.35M$225.41M
7 Day Performance2.76%4.19%3.95%3.06%
1 Month Performance-5.16%-1.72%1.59%9.47%
1 Year Performance-29.87%35.08%36.88%29.95%

Legend Biotech Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LEGN
Legend Biotech
2.3807 of 5 stars
$42.07
-2.5%
$81.46
+93.6%
-30.8%$7.72B$285.14M-44.281,800Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
Positive News
BNTX
BioNTech
2.1453 of 5 stars
$118.21
+4.5%
$138.79
+17.4%
+17.9%$28.34B$4.13B-54.956,133Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↑
TEVA
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
2.4783 of 5 stars
$16.86
-1.5%
$19.67
+16.6%
+70.8%$19.10B$15.85B-19.8737,851Options Volume
Analyst Revision
BGNE
BeiGene
2.3029 of 5 stars
$189.54
-0.5%
$247.07
+30.4%
+15.0%$18.46B$2.46B-22.9410,600Insider Trade
Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
MRNA
Moderna
4.6512 of 5 stars
$43.81
+6.6%
$84.00
+91.7%
-44.6%$16.86B$6.85B-7.665,600Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
VTRS
Viatris
2.4053 of 5 stars
$13.45
+0.6%
$13.33
-0.9%
+42.6%$16.05B$15.43B0.0038,000Short Interest ↓
SMMT
Summit Therapeutics
2.9046 of 5 stars
$18.99
-0.1%
$34.75
+83.0%
+809.4%$14.00B$700,000.00-67.89105Positive News
GMAB
Genmab A/S
4.5211 of 5 stars
$20.76
+0.5%
$45.20
+117.7%
-32.0%$13.74B$2.39B20.052,204High Trading Volume
RDY
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories
1.4596 of 5 stars
$14.32
+0.8%
$17.00
+18.7%
+1.1%$11.95B$3.35B22.6827,048Analyst Revision
News Coverage
PCVX
Vaxcyte
3.187 of 5 stars
$91.56
+3.4%
$147.50
+61.1%
+82.2%$11.41BN/A0.00160Positive News
CTLT
Catalent
3.3502 of 5 stars
$60.98
flat
$63.40
+4.0%
+57.3%$11.07B$4.38B-26.9916,900Short Interest ↑

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