ELAN vs. BNTX, TEVA, SMMT, GMAB, ITCI, RDY, MRNA, ASND, VTRS, and QGEN
Should you be buying Elanco Animal Health stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Elanco Animal Health include BioNTech (BNTX), Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (TEVA), Summit Therapeutics (SMMT), Genmab A/S (GMAB), Intra-Cellular Therapies (ITCI), Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (RDY), Moderna (MRNA), Ascendis Pharma A/S (ASND), Viatris (VTRS), and Qiagen (QGEN). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.
Elanco Animal Health vs. Its Competitors
BioNTech (NASDAQ:BNTX) and Elanco Animal Health (NYSE:ELAN) are both medical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and risk.
Elanco Animal Health has a net margin of 4.60% compared to BioNTech's net margin of -15.16%. Elanco Animal Health's return on equity of 6.78% beat BioNTech's return on equity.
BioNTech has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Elanco Animal Health. BioNTech is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Elanco Animal Health, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BioNTech has a beta of 1.29, indicating that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Elanco Animal Health has a beta of 1.67, indicating that its stock price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500.
BioNTech currently has a consensus target price of $138.25, indicating a potential upside of 29.72%. Elanco Animal Health has a consensus target price of $15.17, indicating a potential upside of 9.74%. Given BioNTech's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe BioNTech is more favorable than Elanco Animal Health.
15.5% of BioNTech shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.5% of Elanco Animal Health shares are held by institutional investors. 19.2% of BioNTech shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Elanco Animal Health shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, BioNTech had 19 more articles in the media than Elanco Animal Health. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for BioNTech and 5 mentions for Elanco Animal Health. BioNTech's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Elanco Animal Health's score of 0.36 indicating that BioNTech is being referred to more favorably in the media.
BioNTech received 7 more outperform votes than Elanco Animal Health when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 54.96% of users gave Elanco Animal Health an outperform vote while only 47.04% of users gave BioNTech an outperform vote.
Summary
BioNTech beats Elanco Animal Health on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:ELAN) was last updated on 6/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff