BPMC vs. FTSV, TPTX, DCPH, CLDX, SDGR, TEVA, ALNY, GMAB, RPRX, and BMRN
Should you be buying Blueprint Medicines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Blueprint Medicines include Forty Seven (FTSV), Turning Point Therapeutics (TPTX), Deciphera Pharmaceuticals (DCPH), Celldex Therapeutics (CLDX), Schrödinger (SDGR), Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (TEVA), Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (ALNY), Genmab A/S (GMAB), Royalty Pharma (RPRX), and BioMarin Pharmaceutical (BMRN).
Blueprint Medicines (NASDAQ:BPMC) and Forty Seven (NASDAQ:FTSV) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and dividends.
71.8% of Forty Seven shares are held by institutional investors. 4.2% of Blueprint Medicines shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 37.4% of Forty Seven shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Forty Seven has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Blueprint Medicines. Forty Seven is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Blueprint Medicines, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Blueprint Medicines received 378 more outperform votes than Forty Seven when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.12% of users gave Forty Seven an outperform vote while only 67.84% of users gave Blueprint Medicines an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Blueprint Medicines had 3 more articles in the media than Forty Seven. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Blueprint Medicines and 1 mentions for Forty Seven. Blueprint Medicines' average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Forty Seven's score of 0.00 indicating that Blueprint Medicines is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Blueprint Medicines has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Forty Seven has a beta of 0.4, suggesting that its stock price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Forty Seven has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Blueprint Medicines' net margin of -102.15%. Forty Seven's return on equity of -50.38% beat Blueprint Medicines' return on equity.
Blueprint Medicines presently has a consensus target price of $103.94, suggesting a potential downside of 1.54%. Given Blueprint Medicines' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Blueprint Medicines is more favorable than Forty Seven.
Summary
Blueprint Medicines beats Forty Seven on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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