SWTX vs. BEAM, CBPO, VIR, REPL, ALLO, CTLT, LEGN, QGEN, SMMT, and ROIV
Should you be buying SpringWorks Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SpringWorks Therapeutics include Beam Therapeutics (BEAM), China Biologic Products (CBPO), Vir Biotechnology (VIR), Replimune Group (REPL), Allogene Therapeutics (ALLO), Catalent (CTLT), Legend Biotech (LEGN), Qiagen (QGEN), Summit Therapeutics (SMMT), and Roivant Sciences (ROIV). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Beam Therapeutics (NASDAQ:BEAM) and SpringWorks Therapeutics (NASDAQ:SWTX) are both medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, community ranking and risk.
99.7% of Beam Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. 4.2% of Beam Therapeutics shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.6% of SpringWorks Therapeutics shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Beam Therapeutics has higher revenue and earnings than SpringWorks Therapeutics. Beam Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SpringWorks Therapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Beam Therapeutics currently has a consensus target price of $41.70, indicating a potential upside of 78.89%. SpringWorks Therapeutics has a consensus target price of $68.50, indicating a potential upside of 76.77%. Given Beam Therapeutics' higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Beam Therapeutics is more favorable than SpringWorks Therapeutics.
Beam Therapeutics has a beta of 1.86, suggesting that its stock price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SpringWorks Therapeutics has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, SpringWorks Therapeutics had 5 more articles in the media than Beam Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for SpringWorks Therapeutics and 3 mentions for Beam Therapeutics. SpringWorks Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Beam Therapeutics' score of -0.26 indicating that SpringWorks Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SpringWorks Therapeutics received 50 more outperform votes than Beam Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.34% of users gave SpringWorks Therapeutics an outperform vote while only 52.33% of users gave Beam Therapeutics an outperform vote.
SpringWorks Therapeutics has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Beam Therapeutics' net margin of -40.56%. Beam Therapeutics' return on equity of -16.22% beat SpringWorks Therapeutics' return on equity.
Summary
SpringWorks Therapeutics beats Beam Therapeutics on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
Get SpringWorks Therapeutics News Delivered to You Automatically
Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for SWTX and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding SWTX and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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.
SpringWorks Therapeutics Competitors List
Related Companies and Tools
Free SWTX Stock Alerts