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PTGX vs. RDY, ASND, VTRS, QGEN, MRNA, BPMC, VRNA, BBIO, ROIV, and RVMD

Should you be buying Protagonist Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Protagonist Therapeutics include Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (RDY), Ascendis Pharma A/S (ASND), Viatris (VTRS), Qiagen (QGEN), Moderna (MRNA), Blueprint Medicines (BPMC), Verona Pharma PLC American Depositary Share (VRNA), BridgeBio Pharma (BBIO), Roivant Sciences (ROIV), and Revolution Medicines (RVMD). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Protagonist Therapeutics vs. Its Competitors

Protagonist Therapeutics (NASDAQ:PTGX) and Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (NYSE:RDY) are both medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and risk.

Protagonist Therapeutics has a beta of 2.26, meaning that its stock price is 126% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories has a beta of 0.33, meaning that its stock price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Protagonist Therapeutics had 3 more articles in the media than Dr. Reddy's Laboratories. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Protagonist Therapeutics and 2 mentions for Dr. Reddy's Laboratories. Protagonist Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Dr. Reddy's Laboratories' score of -0.23 indicating that Protagonist Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Protagonist Therapeutics
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

98.6% of Protagonist Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.9% of Dr. Reddy's Laboratories shares are held by institutional investors. 4.9% of Protagonist Therapeutics shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Dr. Reddy's Laboratories shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Protagonist Therapeutics has a net margin of 27.04% compared to Dr. Reddy's Laboratories' net margin of 17.38%. Dr. Reddy's Laboratories' return on equity of 17.98% beat Protagonist Therapeutics' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Protagonist Therapeutics27.04% 9.22% 8.31%
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories 17.38%17.98%12.24%

Protagonist Therapeutics presently has a consensus price target of $66.10, suggesting a potential upside of 29.10%. Dr. Reddy's Laboratories has a consensus price target of $16.95, suggesting a potential upside of 12.40%. Given Protagonist Therapeutics' higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Protagonist Therapeutics is more favorable than Dr. Reddy's Laboratories.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Protagonist Therapeutics
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Dr. Reddy's Laboratories has higher revenue and earnings than Protagonist Therapeutics. Dr. Reddy's Laboratories is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Protagonist Therapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Protagonist Therapeutics$434.43M7.30$275.19M$0.7568.27
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories$3.81B3.30$663M$0.6622.85

Summary

Protagonist Therapeutics beats Dr. Reddy's Laboratories on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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PTGX vs. The Competition

MetricProtagonist TherapeuticsMED IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$3.16B$2.91B$5.55B$9.04B
Dividend YieldN/A2.44%5.22%4.00%
P/E Ratio68.2721.5627.6420.24
Price / Sales7.30275.02417.15117.30
Price / Cash11.3042.7336.8958.10
Price / Book4.527.518.035.67
Net Income$275.19M-$55.14M$3.18B$249.21M
7 Day Performance-8.06%4.61%2.93%3.28%
1 Month Performance-5.85%0.90%1.72%3.95%
1 Year Performance51.84%5.40%34.39%20.98%

Protagonist Therapeutics Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PTGX
Protagonist Therapeutics
2.1114 of 5 stars
$51.20
+1.0%
$66.10
+29.1%
+51.8%$3.16B$434.43M68.27120
RDY
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories
2.6962 of 5 stars
$15.31
+0.5%
$16.95
+10.7%
-3.4%$12.71B$3.81B23.2027,811
ASND
Ascendis Pharma A/S
3.5022 of 5 stars
$175.78
-0.6%
$220.67
+25.5%
+28.2%$10.81B$393.54M-27.991,017News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast
VTRS
Viatris
2.6598 of 5 stars
$8.85
-0.2%
$10.40
+17.5%
-10.4%$10.41B$14.74B-2.7932,000
QGEN
Qiagen
4.0435 of 5 stars
$46.72
-0.1%
$47.74
+2.2%
+21.0%$10.39B$1.98B117.145,765Dividend Announcement
MRNA
Moderna
4.3784 of 5 stars
$25.67
-0.9%
$46.61
+81.6%
-74.2%$10.02B$3.24B-2.945,800Options Volume
BPMC
Blueprint Medicines
1.5556 of 5 stars
$128.40
+0.2%
$128.06
-0.3%
+14.8%$8.28B$508.82M-51.98640High Trading Volume
VRNA
Verona Pharma PLC American Depositary Share
2.7753 of 5 stars
$97.05
+2.9%
$101.10
+4.2%
+466.0%$8.03B$42.28M-48.5330Positive News
Analyst Forecast
BBIO
BridgeBio Pharma
4.6843 of 5 stars
$42.17
+1.1%
$56.67
+34.4%
+69.7%$7.92B$221.90M-11.95400News Coverage
Insider Trade
Analyst Revision
ROIV
Roivant Sciences
1.5397 of 5 stars
$11.50
+0.4%
$17.50
+52.2%
+1.8%$7.78B$29.05M-46.00860
RVMD
Revolution Medicines
4.5764 of 5 stars
$40.04
+1.0%
$67.08
+67.5%
-1.4%$7.39B$11.58M-10.01250Analyst Revision

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