WST vs. COO, ALGN, MMSI, HAE, ICUI, XRAY, QDEL, NEOG, STAA, and CERS
Should you be buying West Pharmaceutical Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of West Pharmaceutical Services include Cooper Companies (COO), Align Technology (ALGN), Merit Medical Systems (MMSI), Haemonetics (HAE), ICU Medical (ICUI), DENTSPLY SIRONA (XRAY), QuidelOrtho (QDEL), Neogen (NEOG), STAAR Surgical (STAA), and Cerus (CERS). These companies are all part of the "health care supplies" industry.
West Pharmaceutical Services vs.
West Pharmaceutical Services (NYSE:WST) and Cooper Companies (NASDAQ:COO) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, valuation and profitability.
West Pharmaceutical Services has a net margin of 17.03% compared to Cooper Companies' net margin of 10.07%. West Pharmaceutical Services' return on equity of 18.60% beat Cooper Companies' return on equity.
West Pharmaceutical Services presently has a consensus price target of $332.50, indicating a potential upside of 61.67%. Cooper Companies has a consensus price target of $110.25, indicating a potential upside of 39.86%. Given West Pharmaceutical Services' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe West Pharmaceutical Services is more favorable than Cooper Companies.
In the previous week, West Pharmaceutical Services had 11 more articles in the media than Cooper Companies. MarketBeat recorded 46 mentions for West Pharmaceutical Services and 35 mentions for Cooper Companies. Cooper Companies' average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat West Pharmaceutical Services' score of 0.40 indicating that Cooper Companies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cooper Companies received 354 more outperform votes than West Pharmaceutical Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.38% of users gave Cooper Companies an outperform vote while only 56.20% of users gave West Pharmaceutical Services an outperform vote.
West Pharmaceutical Services has a beta of 1.14, indicating that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cooper Companies has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
West Pharmaceutical Services has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Cooper Companies. West Pharmaceutical Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cooper Companies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
93.9% of West Pharmaceutical Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.4% of Cooper Companies shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of West Pharmaceutical Services shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Cooper Companies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
West Pharmaceutical Services beats Cooper Companies on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:WST) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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