ZLAB vs. VKTX, ITCI, JAZZ, BPMC, IONS, OGN, BBIO, CYTK, APLS, and MDGL
Should you be buying Zai Lab stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Zai Lab include Viking Therapeutics (VKTX), Intra-Cellular Therapies (ITCI), Jazz Pharmaceuticals (JAZZ), Blueprint Medicines (BPMC), Ionis Pharmaceuticals (IONS), Organon & Co. (OGN), BridgeBio Pharma (BBIO), Cytokinetics (CYTK), Apellis Pharmaceuticals (APLS), and Madrigal Pharmaceuticals (MDGL). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Viking Therapeutics (NASDAQ:VKTX) and Zai Lab (NASDAQ:ZLAB) are both medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.
76.0% of Viking Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.7% of Zai Lab shares are held by institutional investors. 4.7% of Viking Therapeutics shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.2% of Zai Lab shares are held 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.
Viking Therapeutics currently has a consensus target price of $112.38, indicating a potential upside of 80.49%. Zai Lab has a consensus target price of $64.22, indicating a potential upside of 261.21%. Given Viking Therapeutics' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Zai Lab is more favorable than Viking Therapeutics.
Viking Therapeutics has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Zai Lab. Viking Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Zai Lab, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Viking Therapeutics has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Zai Lab has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Viking Therapeutics received 379 more outperform votes than Zai Lab when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 79.76% of users gave Viking Therapeutics an outperform vote while only 63.58% of users gave Zai Lab an outperform vote.
Viking Therapeutics has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Viking Therapeutics' net margin of -116.45%. Zai Lab's return on equity of -18.41% beat Viking Therapeutics' return on equity.
In the previous week, Viking Therapeutics had 3 more articles in the media than Zai Lab. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Viking Therapeutics and 6 mentions for Zai Lab. Viking Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Zai Lab's score of 0.82 indicating that Zai Lab is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Viking Therapeutics beats Zai Lab on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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