HLUYY vs. ESALY, SSMXY, SGIOY, ERFSF, BMXMF, SNPTF, SBMFF, RCDTF, ORINY, and SWTUY
Should you be buying H. Lundbeck A/S stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of H. Lundbeck A/S include Eisai (ESALY), Sysmex (SSMXY), Shionogi & Co., Ltd. (SGIOY), Eurofins Scientific (ERFSF), bioMérieux (BMXMF), Sunny Optical Technology (Group) (SNPTF), Sino Biopharmaceutical (SBMFF), Recordati Industria Chimica e Farmaceutica (RCDTF), Orion Oyj (ORINY), and SWEDISH ORPHAN/S (SWTUY). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
H. Lundbeck A/S vs.
Eisai (OTCMKTS:ESALY) and H. Lundbeck A/S (OTCMKTS:HLUYY) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, valuation and community ranking.
Eisai has a beta of 0.31, suggesting that its stock price is 69% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, H. Lundbeck A/S has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
H. Lundbeck A/S has a consensus target price of $36.50, indicating a potential upside of 65.91%. Given H. Lundbeck A/S's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe H. Lundbeck A/S is more favorable than Eisai.
Eisai pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. H. Lundbeck A/S pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Eisai pays out 101.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. H. Lundbeck A/S pays out 22.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
0.0% of Eisai shares are held by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Eisai has higher revenue and earnings than H. Lundbeck A/S. H. Lundbeck A/S is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eisai, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Eisai received 28 more outperform votes than H. Lundbeck A/S when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.92% of users gave Eisai an outperform vote while only 61.79% of users gave H. Lundbeck A/S an outperform vote.
H. Lundbeck A/S has a net margin of 6.74% compared to Eisai's net margin of 4.11%. H. Lundbeck A/S's return on equity of 13.74% beat Eisai's return on equity.
In the previous week, Eisai's average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat H. Lundbeck A/S's score of 0.00 indicating that Eisai is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
H. Lundbeck A/S beats Eisai on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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