HIK vs. HCM, INDV, CTEC, GNS, SN, BMK, APH, BXP, AGY, and ANCR
Should you be buying Hikma Pharmaceuticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hikma Pharmaceuticals include HUTCHMED (HCM), Indivior (INDV), ConvaTec Group (CTEC), Genus (GNS), Smith & Nephew (SN), Benchmark (BMK), Alliance Pharma (APH), Beximco Pharmaceuticals (BXP), Allergy Therapeutics (AGY), and Animalcare Group (ANCR). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
HUTCHMED (LON:HCM) and Hikma Pharmaceuticals (LON:HIK) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk and analyst recommendations.
HUTCHMED has a net margin of 12.03% compared to HUTCHMED's net margin of 6.61%. Hikma Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of 14.65% beat HUTCHMED's return on equity.
Hikma Pharmaceuticals received 602 more outperform votes than HUTCHMED when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 78.40% of users gave HUTCHMED an outperform vote while only 70.56% of users gave Hikma Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote.
Hikma Pharmaceuticals has higher revenue and earnings than HUTCHMED. Hikma Pharmaceuticals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HUTCHMED, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, HUTCHMED and HUTCHMED both had 1 articles in the media. HUTCHMED's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Hikma Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.00 indicating that Hikma Pharmaceuticals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Hikma Pharmaceuticals has a consensus target price of GBX 2,050, suggesting a potential upside of 7.16%. Given HUTCHMED's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Hikma Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than HUTCHMED.
35.4% of HUTCHMED shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.6% of Hikma Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. 42.9% of HUTCHMED shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 30.6% of Hikma Pharmaceuticals shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
HUTCHMED has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hikma Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.44, meaning that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Hikma Pharmaceuticals beats HUTCHMED on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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