HCM vs. HIK, INDV, AMYT, BMK, APH, AGY, BXP, ANCR, EAH, and CEL
Should you be buying HUTCHMED stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HUTCHMED include Hikma Pharmaceuticals (HIK), Indivior (INDV), Amryt Pharma (AMYT), Benchmark (BMK), Alliance Pharma (APH), Allergy Therapeutics (AGY), Beximco Pharmaceuticals (BXP), Animalcare Group (ANCR), ECO Animal Health Group (EAH), and Celadon Pharmaceuticals (CEL). These companies are all part of the "drug manufacturers - specialty & generic" industry.
Hikma Pharmaceuticals (LON:HIK) and HUTCHMED (LON:HCM) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, valuation, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
HUTCHMED has a net margin of 12.03% compared to HUTCHMED's net margin of 6.61%. Hikma Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of 14.65% beat HUTCHMED's return on equity.
37.6% of Hikma Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.4% of HUTCHMED shares are held by institutional investors. 30.6% of Hikma Pharmaceuticals shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 42.9% of HUTCHMED shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Hikma Pharmaceuticals had 1 more articles in the media than HUTCHMED. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Hikma Pharmaceuticals and 0 mentions for HUTCHMED. HUTCHMED's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Hikma Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.00 indicating that Hikma Pharmaceuticals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Hikma Pharmaceuticals has higher revenue and earnings than HUTCHMED. HUTCHMED is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hikma Pharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hikma Pharmaceuticals received 602 more outperform votes than HUTCHMED when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 78.40% of users gave HUTCHMED an outperform vote while only 70.56% of users gave Hikma Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote.
Hikma Pharmaceuticals presently has a consensus price target of GBX 2,050, suggesting a potential upside of 5.62%. Given HUTCHMED's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Hikma Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than HUTCHMED.
Hikma Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.44, suggesting that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HUTCHMED has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Hikma Pharmaceuticals beats HUTCHMED on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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