AMRX vs. AMPH, COLL, SVA, STML, PRGO, ASND, LEGN, CERE, VKTX, and ITCI
Should you be buying Amneal Pharmaceuticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Amneal Pharmaceuticals include Amphastar Pharmaceuticals (AMPH), Collegium Pharmaceutical (COLL), Sinovac Biotech (SVA), Stemline Therapeutics (STML), Perrigo (PRGO), Ascendis Pharma A/S (ASND), Legend Biotech (LEGN), Cerevel Therapeutics (CERE), Viking Therapeutics (VKTX), and Intra-Cellular Therapies (ITCI). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Amphastar Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:AMPH) and Amneal Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:AMRX) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.
Amphastar Pharmaceuticals received 377 more outperform votes than Amneal Pharmaceuticals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Amneal Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave Amphastar Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote.
65.1% of Amphastar Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.8% of Amneal Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by institutional investors. 27.1% of Amphastar Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 26.6% of Amneal Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Amphastar Pharmaceuticals has a net margin of 22.88% compared to Amphastar Pharmaceuticals' net margin of -6.76%. Amphastar Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of 234.06% beat Amneal Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.
Amphastar Pharmaceuticals presently has a consensus price target of $66.00, suggesting a potential upside of 55.92%. Amneal Pharmaceuticals has a consensus price target of $8.25, suggesting a potential upside of 23.50%. Given Amneal Pharmaceuticals' higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Amphastar Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than Amneal Pharmaceuticals.
Amphastar Pharmaceuticals has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Amneal Pharmaceuticals. Amneal Pharmaceuticals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Amphastar Pharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Amphastar Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amneal Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 1.33, indicating that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Amphastar Pharmaceuticals had 4 more articles in the media than Amneal Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Amphastar Pharmaceuticals and 7 mentions for Amneal Pharmaceuticals. Amneal Pharmaceuticals' average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Amphastar Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.92 indicating that Amphastar Pharmaceuticals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Amphastar Pharmaceuticals beats Amneal Pharmaceuticals on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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