VRTX vs. REGN, BMY, SNY, GSK, ZTS, PFE, TAK, ABT, RPRX, and BGNE
Should you be buying Vertex Pharmaceuticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vertex Pharmaceuticals include Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (REGN), Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), Sanofi (SNY), GSK (GSK), Zoetis (ZTS), Pfizer (PFE), Takeda Pharmaceutical (TAK), Abbott Laboratories (ABT), Royalty Pharma (RPRX), and BeiGene (BGNE). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:VRTX) and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:REGN) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, profitability, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.
91.0% of Vertex Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.3% of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Vertex Pharmaceuticals shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.8% of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals has a net margin of 36.68% compared to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals' net margin of 30.14%. Vertex Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of 21.91% beat Regeneron Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.35, suggesting that its share price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.11, suggesting that its share price is 89% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals received 59 more outperform votes than Regeneron Pharmaceuticals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.65% of users gave Vertex Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 66.58% of users gave Regeneron Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals currently has a consensus target price of $429.45, indicating a potential upside of 8.04%. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has a consensus target price of $977.77, indicating a potential upside of 10.71%. Given Regeneron Pharmaceuticals' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Regeneron Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than Vertex Pharmaceuticals.
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has higher revenue and earnings than Vertex Pharmaceuticals. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vertex Pharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals had 5 more articles in the media than Vertex Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and 20 mentions for Vertex Pharmaceuticals. Vertex Pharmaceuticals' average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Regeneron Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.68 indicating that Vertex Pharmaceuticals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Vertex Pharmaceuticals beats Regeneron Pharmaceuticals on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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