TECH vs. NBIX, QGEN, RGEN, CRSP, DNLI, A, MTD, ILMN, WAT, and CRL
Should you be buying Bio-Techne stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bio-Techne include Neurocrine Biosciences (NBIX), Qiagen (QGEN), Repligen (RGEN), CRISPR Therapeutics (CRSP), Denali Therapeutics (DNLI), Agilent Technologies (A), Mettler-Toledo International (MTD), Illumina (ILMN), Waters (WAT), and Charles River Laboratories International (CRL).
Bio-Techne (NASDAQ:TECH) and Neurocrine Biosciences (NASDAQ:NBIX) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, valuation, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.
In the previous week, Neurocrine Biosciences had 4 more articles in the media than Bio-Techne. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Neurocrine Biosciences and 14 mentions for Bio-Techne. Neurocrine Biosciences' average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Bio-Techne's score of 0.51 indicating that Neurocrine Biosciences is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
99.0% of Bio-Techne shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.6% of Neurocrine Biosciences shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.5% of Bio-Techne shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of Neurocrine Biosciences shares are owned 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.
Bio-Techne has a beta of 1.29, meaning that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Neurocrine Biosciences has a beta of 0.37, meaning that its share price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Neurocrine Biosciences has a net margin of 18.65% compared to Bio-Techne's net margin of 17.59%. Neurocrine Biosciences' return on equity of 17.45% beat Bio-Techne's return on equity.
Bio-Techne has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Neurocrine Biosciences. Neurocrine Biosciences is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bio-Techne, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bio-Techne currently has a consensus price target of $81.00, suggesting a potential upside of 0.50%. Neurocrine Biosciences has a consensus price target of $154.08, suggesting a potential upside of 4.96%. Given Neurocrine Biosciences' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Neurocrine Biosciences is more favorable than Bio-Techne.
Neurocrine Biosciences received 606 more outperform votes than Bio-Techne when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.72% of users gave Neurocrine Biosciences an outperform vote while only 62.38% of users gave Bio-Techne an outperform vote.
Summary
Neurocrine Biosciences beats Bio-Techne on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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