ITCI vs. VIE, RARX, AIMT, KURA, IRWD, ALNY, TEVA, GMAB, RPRX, and BGNE
Should you be buying Intra-Cellular Therapies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Intra-Cellular Therapies include Viela Bio (VIE), Ra Pharmaceuticals (RARX), Aimmune Therapeutics (AIMT), Kura Oncology (KURA), Ironwood Pharmaceuticals (IRWD), Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (ALNY), Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (TEVA), Genmab A/S (GMAB), Royalty Pharma (RPRX), and BeiGene (BGNE).
Intra-Cellular Therapies (NASDAQ:ITCI) and Viela Bio (NASDAQ:VIE) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends and risk.
Intra-Cellular Therapies presently has a consensus price target of $90.17, suggesting a potential upside of 34.10%. Given Intra-Cellular Therapies' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Intra-Cellular Therapies is more favorable than Viela Bio.
92.3% of Intra-Cellular Therapies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.0% of Viela Bio shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.4% of Intra-Cellular Therapies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 31.5% of Viela Bio shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Intra-Cellular Therapies received 502 more outperform votes than Viela Bio when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.38% of users gave Intra-Cellular Therapies an outperform vote while only 40.00% of users gave Viela Bio an outperform vote.
Intra-Cellular Therapies has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Viela Bio has a beta of 0.43, suggesting that its stock price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Viela Bio has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Intra-Cellular Therapies. Intra-Cellular Therapies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Viela Bio, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Viela Bio has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Intra-Cellular Therapies' net margin of -21.57%. Intra-Cellular Therapies' return on equity of -18.49% beat Viela Bio's return on equity.
In the previous week, Intra-Cellular Therapies had 7 more articles in the media than Viela Bio. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Intra-Cellular Therapies and 0 mentions for Viela Bio. Intra-Cellular Therapies' average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Viela Bio's score of 0.00 indicating that Intra-Cellular Therapies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Intra-Cellular Therapies beats Viela Bio on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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