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Medicis Pharmaceutical (MRX) Competitors

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MRX vs. CBOE, BXP, CIB, FHN, SF, OHI, EVR, AFG, GL, and LINE

Should you be buying Medicis Pharmaceutical stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Medicis Pharmaceutical include Cboe Global Markets (CBOE), BXP (BXP), BanColombia (CIB), First Horizon (FHN), Stifel Financial (SF), Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI), Evercore (EVR), American Financial Group (AFG), Globe Life (GL), and Lineage (LINE). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

Medicis Pharmaceutical vs. Its Competitors

Medicis Pharmaceutical (NYSE:MRX) and Cboe Global Markets (NASDAQ:CBOE) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.

Medicis Pharmaceutical pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Cboe Global Markets pays an annual dividend of $2.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Cboe Global Markets pays out 33.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cboe Global Markets has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.

In the previous week, Cboe Global Markets had 14 more articles in the media than Medicis Pharmaceutical. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Cboe Global Markets and 1 mentions for Medicis Pharmaceutical. Cboe Global Markets' average media sentiment score of 1.49 beat Medicis Pharmaceutical's score of 0.00 indicating that Cboe Global Markets is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Medicis Pharmaceutical
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Cboe Global Markets
13 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Cboe Global Markets has a net margin of 18.64% compared to Medicis Pharmaceutical's net margin of 0.00%. Cboe Global Markets' return on equity of 22.02% beat Medicis Pharmaceutical's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Medicis PharmaceuticalN/A N/A N/A
Cboe Global Markets 18.64%22.02%10.73%

Cboe Global Markets has higher revenue and earnings than Medicis Pharmaceutical.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Medicis Pharmaceutical$1.24B2.18$141.30MN/AN/A
Cboe Global Markets$4.09B6.02$764.90M$7.6330.83

82.7% of Cboe Global Markets shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.8% of Medicis Pharmaceutical shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Cboe Global Markets shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Medicis Pharmaceutical presently has a consensus price target of $44.00, indicating a potential upside of 14.14%. Cboe Global Markets has a consensus price target of $219.64, indicating a potential downside of 6.63%. Given Medicis Pharmaceutical's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Medicis Pharmaceutical is more favorable than Cboe Global Markets.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Medicis Pharmaceutical
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.71
Cboe Global Markets
3 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.92

Summary

Cboe Global Markets beats Medicis Pharmaceutical on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE 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.
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MRX vs. The Competition

MetricMedicis PharmaceuticalSecurity & commodity brokers IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$2.73B$24.50B$11.87B$20.42B
Dividend Yield1.44%1.09%5.53%3.72%
P/E RatioN/A16.2019.9527.79
Price / Sales2.185.9825.7338.15
Price / CashN/A19.4218.7218.22
Price / BookN/A5.722.254.58
Net Income$141.30M$764.90M$990.08M$982.91M

Medicis Pharmaceutical Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MRX
Medicis Pharmaceutical
0.681 of 5 stars
$38.55
+18.5%
$44.00
+14.1%
+101.4%$2.73B$1.24B0.002,074
CBOE
Cboe Global Markets
3.0039 of 5 stars
$233.21
+1.8%
$219.64
-5.8%
N/A$24.42B$4.09B32.301,540Positive News
BXP
BXP
3.7461 of 5 stars
$67.44
-1.7%
$79.54
+17.9%
+14.1%$10.86B$3.41B-3,370.31780
CIB
BanColombia
1.8246 of 5 stars
$46.21
+2.5%
$39.00
-15.6%
+39.2%$10.84B$10.55B7.4134,114
FHN
First Horizon
4.6031 of 5 stars
$21.23
+0.9%
$22.53
+6.1%
+43.4%$10.67B$5.03B14.747,252Positive News
SF
Stifel Financial
4.4656 of 5 stars
$103.98
+0.3%
$105.50
+1.5%
+32.5%$10.65B$4.97B19.889,000Positive News
Analyst Downgrade
OHI
Omega Healthcare Investors
4.4937 of 5 stars
$36.63
+0.1%
$41.88
+14.3%
+8.2%$10.59B$1.05B22.7550Positive News
EVR
Evercore
4.5365 of 5 stars
$270.85
+0.7%
$250.57
-7.5%
+35.0%$10.52B$2.98B25.922,380Analyst Forecast
AFG
American Financial Group
4.2369 of 5 stars
$126.32
+1.1%
$139.33
+10.3%
+5.6%$10.45B$8.32B13.278,700Positive News
Dividend Announcement
GL
Globe Life
4.6672 of 5 stars
$124.43
+0.4%
$137.73
+10.7%
+48.7%$10.23B$5.78B10.123,732
LINE
Lineage
4.5437 of 5 stars
$43.52
-1.3%
$62.10
+42.7%
N/A$10.08B$5.34B-13.5226,000

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