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VNDA vs. OPK, GERN, RIGL, ZBIO, MYGN, VSTM, EBS, LXRX, XOMA, and CBIO

Should you be buying Vanda Pharmaceuticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vanda Pharmaceuticals include OPKO Health (OPK), Geron (GERN), Rigel Pharmaceuticals (RIGL), Zenas BioPharma (ZBIO), Myriad Genetics (MYGN), Verastem (VSTM), Emergent Biosolutions (EBS), Lexicon Pharmaceuticals (LXRX), XOMA Royalty (XOMA), and Crescent Biopharma (CBIO). These companies are all part of the "biotechnology" industry.

Vanda Pharmaceuticals vs. Its Competitors

Vanda Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:VNDA) and OPKO Health (NASDAQ:OPK) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, valuation and dividends.

Vanda Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OPKO Health has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.

OPKO Health has a net margin of -26.68% compared to Vanda Pharmaceuticals' net margin of -32.90%. Vanda Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of -12.89% beat OPKO Health's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Vanda Pharmaceuticals-32.90% -12.89% -10.47%
OPKO Health -26.68%-13.17%-8.28%

Vanda Pharmaceuticals has higher earnings, but lower revenue than OPKO Health. OPKO Health is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vanda Pharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Vanda Pharmaceuticals$198.77M1.35-$18.90M-$1.13-4.03
OPKO Health$713.10M1.53-$53.22M-$0.25-5.50

Vanda Pharmaceuticals currently has a consensus target price of $16.50, suggesting a potential upside of 262.24%. OPKO Health has a consensus target price of $2.75, suggesting a potential upside of 100.00%. Given Vanda Pharmaceuticals' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Vanda Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than OPKO Health.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Vanda Pharmaceuticals
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.50
OPKO Health
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.83

88.1% of Vanda Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.6% of OPKO Health shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.9% of Vanda Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 49.7% of OPKO Health shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Vanda Pharmaceuticals and Vanda Pharmaceuticals both had 6 articles in the media. OPKO Health's average media sentiment score of 1.41 beat Vanda Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.75 indicating that OPKO Health is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Vanda Pharmaceuticals
5 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
OPKO Health
5 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

OPKO Health beats Vanda Pharmaceuticals on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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VNDA vs. The Competition

MetricVanda PharmaceuticalsMED IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$269.16M$3.10B$5.75B$9.87B
Dividend YieldN/A2.28%6.66%4.49%
P/E Ratio-4.0320.8082.8226.56
Price / Sales1.35372.93500.42162.62
Price / CashN/A43.5325.7028.92
Price / Book0.558.0510.796.50
Net Income-$18.90M-$53.35M$3.28B$266.21M
7 Day Performance-3.09%-0.80%-0.25%-1.06%
1 Month Performance6.92%6.16%6.71%3.51%
1 Year Performance-10.33%11.03%49.66%23.94%

Vanda Pharmaceuticals Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
VNDA
Vanda Pharmaceuticals
4.1268 of 5 stars
$4.61
-2.4%
$16.50
+258.3%
-7.1%$271.52M$198.77M-4.07290
OPK
OPKO Health
4.3971 of 5 stars
$1.38
-2.8%
$2.75
+99.3%
-14.8%$1.10B$713.10M-5.522,997Positive News
GERN
Geron
3.2222 of 5 stars
$1.40
-2.1%
$4.19
+199.1%
-68.2%$893.22M$76.99M-10.77229
RIGL
Rigel Pharmaceuticals
2.7877 of 5 stars
$38.85
-1.2%
$38.20
-1.7%
+201.9%$696.87M$179.28M7.18160Positive News
Short Interest ↓
Gap Up
ZBIO
Zenas BioPharma
1.6507 of 5 stars
$16.00
-1.6%
$36.67
+129.2%
N/A$673.77M$5M-4.51N/APositive News
MYGN
Myriad Genetics
3.4951 of 5 stars
$6.37
+2.4%
$12.45
+95.5%
-75.2%$592.69M$837.60M-1.492,700Positive News
VSTM
Verastem
3.0856 of 5 stars
$9.25
+0.2%
$13.29
+43.6%
+292.6%$569.29M$10K-2.8250
EBS
Emergent Biosolutions
4.8186 of 5 stars
$8.29
-1.3%
$14.33
+73.0%
+6.5%$442.81M$1.04B3.382,420Positive News
Analyst Forecast
LXRX
Lexicon Pharmaceuticals
2.2925 of 5 stars
$1.10
-4.3%
$3.23
+193.2%
-32.9%$399.74M$31.08M-3.33140News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
XOMA
XOMA Royalty
3.7335 of 5 stars
$32.47
-0.7%
$69.50
+114.0%
+20.0%$392.49M$28.49M-20.9510Positive News
CBIO
Crescent Biopharma
3.7413 of 5 stars
$14.40
+1.8%
$25.60
+77.8%
N/A$281.52M$10K-0.4150

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