ZTS vs. BMY, PFE, ABBV, GSK, REGN, VRTX, TAK, SNY, ABT, and NVS
Should you be buying Zoetis stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Zoetis include Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), Pfizer (PFE), AbbVie (ABBV), GSK (GSK), Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (REGN), Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX), Takeda Pharmaceutical (TAK), Sanofi (SNY), Abbott Laboratories (ABT), and Novartis (NVS). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Zoetis (NYSE:ZTS) and Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE:BMY) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, risk, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
Zoetis has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bristol-Myers Squibb has a beta of 0.45, indicating that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Zoetis pays an annual dividend of $1.73 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Bristol-Myers Squibb pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. Zoetis pays out 33.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bristol-Myers Squibb pays out -77.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Bristol-Myers Squibb is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Zoetis currently has a consensus price target of $211.75, suggesting a potential upside of 23.61%. Bristol-Myers Squibb has a consensus price target of $60.00, suggesting a potential upside of 48.18%. Given Bristol-Myers Squibb's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Bristol-Myers Squibb is more favorable than Zoetis.
Zoetis has a net margin of 27.38% compared to Bristol-Myers Squibb's net margin of -13.50%. Zoetis' return on equity of 50.34% beat Bristol-Myers Squibb's return on equity.
In the previous week, Bristol-Myers Squibb had 12 more articles in the media than Zoetis. MarketBeat recorded 36 mentions for Bristol-Myers Squibb and 24 mentions for Zoetis. Bristol-Myers Squibb's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Zoetis' score of 0.36 indicating that Bristol-Myers Squibb is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
92.8% of Zoetis shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.4% of Bristol-Myers Squibb shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Zoetis shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Bristol-Myers Squibb 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.
Bristol-Myers Squibb received 181 more outperform votes than Zoetis when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 77.82% of users gave Zoetis an outperform vote while only 66.89% of users gave Bristol-Myers Squibb an outperform vote.
Bristol-Myers Squibb has higher revenue and earnings than Zoetis. Bristol-Myers Squibb is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Zoetis, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Zoetis beats Bristol-Myers Squibb on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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