IONS vs. JAZZ, PRGO, RARE, ARWR, BHVN, ALNY, BMRN, NBIX, INCY, and UTHR
Should you be buying Ionis Pharmaceuticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ionis Pharmaceuticals include Jazz Pharmaceuticals (JAZZ), Perrigo (PRGO), Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical (RARE), Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals (ARWR), Biohaven (BHVN), Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (ALNY), BioMarin Pharmaceutical (BMRN), Neurocrine Biosciences (NBIX), Incyte (INCY), and United Therapeutics (UTHR). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Jazz Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:JAZZ) and Ionis Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:IONS) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.
89.1% of Jazz Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.9% of Ionis Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. 4.4% of Jazz Pharmaceuticals shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Ionis Pharmaceuticals shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Jazz Pharmaceuticals currently has a consensus target price of $190.92, indicating a potential upside of 70.39%. Ionis Pharmaceuticals has a consensus target price of $59.54, indicating a potential upside of 52.86%. Given Ionis Pharmaceuticals' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Jazz Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than Ionis Pharmaceuticals.
In the previous week, Jazz Pharmaceuticals had 8 more articles in the media than Ionis Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Jazz Pharmaceuticals and 4 mentions for Ionis Pharmaceuticals. Ionis Pharmaceuticals' average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Jazz Pharmaceuticals' score of 1.07 indicating that Jazz Pharmaceuticals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Jazz Pharmaceuticals has a net margin of 8.61% compared to Jazz Pharmaceuticals' net margin of -49.49%. Ionis Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of 27.86% beat Jazz Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.
Jazz Pharmaceuticals has higher revenue and earnings than Ionis Pharmaceuticals. Ionis Pharmaceuticals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Jazz Pharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Jazz Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.62, meaning that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ionis Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.35, meaning that its stock price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Jazz Pharmaceuticals received 420 more outperform votes than Ionis Pharmaceuticals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.57% of users gave Jazz Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 60.20% of users gave Ionis Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote.
Summary
Jazz Pharmaceuticals beats Ionis Pharmaceuticals on 16 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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