RDY vs. TAK, ALNY, TEVA, GMAB, RPRX, BMRN, BGNE, VTRS, UTHR, and SRPT
Should you be buying Dr. Reddy's Laboratories stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dr. Reddy's Laboratories include Takeda Pharmaceutical (TAK), Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (ALNY), Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (TEVA), Genmab A/S (GMAB), Royalty Pharma (RPRX), BioMarin Pharmaceutical (BMRN), BeiGene (BGNE), Viatris (VTRS), United Therapeutics (UTHR), and Sarepta Therapeutics (SRPT). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (NYSE:RDY) and Takeda Pharmaceutical (NYSE:TAK) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, valuation and earnings.
14.0% of Dr. Reddy's Laboratories shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.2% of Takeda Pharmaceutical shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Dr. Reddy's Laboratories shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Takeda Pharmaceutical shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories has a net margin of 19.97% compared to Takeda Pharmaceutical's net margin of 6.18%. Dr. Reddy's Laboratories' return on equity of 21.27% beat Takeda Pharmaceutical's return on equity.
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories presently has a consensus price target of $81.00, suggesting a potential upside of 12.50%. Takeda Pharmaceutical has a consensus price target of $14.00, suggesting a potential upside of 3.86%. Given Dr. Reddy's Laboratories' higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Dr. Reddy's Laboratories is more favorable than Takeda Pharmaceutical.
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories received 217 more outperform votes than Takeda Pharmaceutical when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.25% of users gave Dr. Reddy's Laboratories an outperform vote while only 56.82% of users gave Takeda Pharmaceutical an outperform vote.
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories has a beta of 0.52, indicating that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Takeda Pharmaceutical has a beta of 0.55, indicating that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Takeda Pharmaceutical has higher revenue and earnings than Dr. Reddy's Laboratories. Dr. Reddy's Laboratories is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Takeda Pharmaceutical, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories and Dr. Reddy's Laboratories both had 3 articles in the media. Dr. Reddy's Laboratories' average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Takeda Pharmaceutical's score of 0.73 indicating that Dr. Reddy's Laboratories is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories pays an annual dividend of $0.41 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Takeda Pharmaceutical pays an annual dividend of $0.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Dr. Reddy's Laboratories pays out 10.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Takeda Pharmaceutical pays out 47.3% 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.
Summary
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories beats Takeda Pharmaceutical on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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