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RPRX vs. ZTS, CORT, JAZZ, PRGO, SUPN, PCRX, OMER, ASMB, NKTR, and CPIX

Should you be buying Royalty Pharma stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Royalty Pharma include Zoetis (ZTS), Corcept Therapeutics (CORT), Jazz Pharmaceuticals (JAZZ), Perrigo (PRGO), Supernus Pharmaceuticals (SUPN), Pacira BioSciences (PCRX), Omeros (OMER), Assembly Biosciences (ASMB), Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR), and Cumberland Pharmaceuticals (CPIX). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceuticals" industry.

Royalty Pharma vs. Its Competitors

Royalty Pharma (NASDAQ:RPRX) and Zoetis (NYSE:ZTS) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.

54.4% of Royalty Pharma shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.8% of Zoetis shares are held by institutional investors. 18.9% of Royalty Pharma shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Zoetis shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Royalty Pharma$2.26B8.91$858.98M$1.8519.39
Zoetis$9.26B7.65$2.49B$5.5728.56

Royalty Pharma has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Zoetis has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Royalty Pharma has a net margin of 48.23% compared to Zoetis' net margin of 27.12%. Zoetis' return on equity of 55.48% beat Royalty Pharma's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Royalty Pharma48.23% 24.71% 13.87%
Zoetis 27.12%55.48%19.14%

In the previous week, Zoetis had 12 more articles in the media than Royalty Pharma. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Zoetis and 20 mentions for Royalty Pharma. Zoetis' average media sentiment score of 1.41 beat Royalty Pharma's score of 1.05 indicating that Zoetis is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Royalty Pharma
10 Very Positive mention(s)
5 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Zoetis
27 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Royalty Pharma pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Zoetis pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Royalty Pharma pays out 47.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Zoetis pays out 35.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Royalty Pharma has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years and Zoetis has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years.

Royalty Pharma presently has a consensus target price of $47.33, indicating a potential upside of 31.92%. Zoetis has a consensus target price of $212.13, indicating a potential upside of 33.34%. Given Zoetis' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Zoetis is more favorable than Royalty Pharma.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Royalty Pharma
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.25
Zoetis
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Summary

Zoetis beats Royalty Pharma on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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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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RPRX vs. The Competition

MetricRoyalty PharmaMED IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$20.26B$2.85B$5.48B$8.94B
Dividend Yield2.44%2.69%5.38%4.12%
P/E Ratio19.3921.1726.2219.74
Price / Sales8.91262.85405.42109.12
Price / Cash8.5941.8936.4957.06
Price / Book2.047.237.945.37
Net Income$858.98M-$55.05M$3.15B$248.34M
7 Day Performance-0.08%-0.60%0.77%1.67%
1 Month Performance7.88%3.77%3.47%4.56%
1 Year Performance38.64%2.20%34.86%18.42%

Royalty Pharma Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
RPRX
Royalty Pharma
4.913 of 5 stars
$35.88
-0.4%
$47.33
+31.9%
+37.0%$20.26B$2.26B19.3980Positive News
Analyst Downgrade
ZTS
Zoetis
4.8312 of 5 stars
$157.51
+0.2%
$212.13
+34.7%
-7.8%$70.12B$9.29B28.2813,800Positive News
CORT
Corcept Therapeutics
4.7118 of 5 stars
$74.28
+4.1%
$138.25
+86.1%
+112.2%$7.88B$675.04M64.03300
JAZZ
Jazz Pharmaceuticals
4.9101 of 5 stars
$106.76
-0.7%
$184.00
+72.3%
+2.8%$6.46B$4.07B14.232,800
PRGO
Perrigo
4.8519 of 5 stars
$26.43
-0.3%
$33.00
+24.9%
+4.3%$3.63B$4.34B-20.188,379News Coverage
SUPN
Supernus Pharmaceuticals
2.3136 of 5 stars
$31.99
-0.9%
$36.00
+12.5%
+19.8%$1.79B$661.82M28.82580
PCRX
Pacira BioSciences
3.5262 of 5 stars
$24.74
+2.1%
$26.44
+6.9%
-18.3%$1.15B$700.97M-10.85720
OMER
Omeros
3.6855 of 5 stars
$3.19
-0.6%
$18.00
+464.3%
-24.8%$186.90MN/A-1.20210Analyst Forecast
ASMB
Assembly Biosciences
3.6356 of 5 stars
$17.10
-1.7%
$33.00
+93.0%
+33.9%$130.64M$28.52M-2.74100Trending News
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
NKTR
Nektar Therapeutics
4.614 of 5 stars
$9.54
+12.1%
$67.50
+607.5%
+34.4%$118.39M$98.43M-0.99220Gap Down
High Trading Volume
CPIX
Cumberland Pharmaceuticals
0.5397 of 5 stars
$3.93
-9.7%
N/A+133.4%$58.79M$37.87M-15.7280Trending News

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