ILMN vs. WAT, BRKR, BIO, AVTR, RVTY, BIO.B, ALNY, BAX, LH, and COO
Should you be buying Illumina stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Illumina include Waters (WAT), Bruker (BRKR), Bio-Rad Laboratories (BIO), Avantor (AVTR), Revvity (RVTY), Bio-Rad Laboratories (BIO.B), Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (ALNY), Baxter International (BAX), Laboratory Co. of America (LH), and Cooper Companies (COO).
Waters (NYSE:WAT) and Illumina (NASDAQ:ILMN) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.
Waters presently has a consensus target price of $305.78, suggesting a potential downside of 15.17%. Illumina has a consensus target price of $164.65, suggesting a potential upside of 43.85%. Given Waters' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Illumina is more favorable than Waters.
Illumina received 650 more outperform votes than Waters when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.71% of users gave Illumina an outperform vote while only 54.30% of users gave Waters an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Waters had 42 more articles in the media than Illumina. MarketBeat recorded 60 mentions for Waters and 18 mentions for Illumina. Waters' average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Illumina's score of 0.05 indicating that Illumina is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Waters has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Illumina has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Waters has a net margin of 20.75% compared to Waters' net margin of -28.71%. Illumina's return on equity of 66.59% beat Waters' return on equity.
94.0% of Waters shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.4% of Illumina shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Waters shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Illumina shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Waters has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Illumina. Illumina is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Waters, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Waters beats Illumina on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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