INCY vs. MEDP, CRL, EXEL, NRC, ICLR, IQV, FMS, NTRA, RVTY, and TECH
Should you be buying Incyte stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Incyte include Medpace (MEDP), Charles River Laboratories International (CRL), Exelixis (EXEL), National Research (NRC), ICON Public (ICLR), IQVIA (IQV), Fresenius Medical Care (FMS), Natera (NTRA), Revvity (RVTY), and Bio-Techne (TECH).
Incyte (NASDAQ:INCY) and Medpace (NASDAQ:MEDP) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, earnings, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk and institutional ownership.
Incyte has higher revenue and earnings than Medpace. Incyte is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Medpace, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Incyte had 2 more articles in the media than Medpace. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Incyte and 22 mentions for Medpace. Medpace's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Incyte's score of 0.47 indicating that Medpace is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Incyte received 873 more outperform votes than Medpace when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.63% of users gave Incyte an outperform vote while only 64.00% of users gave Medpace an outperform vote.
Incyte has a net margin of 19.78% compared to Medpace's net margin of 15.92%. Medpace's return on equity of 59.74% beat Incyte's return on equity.
97.0% of Incyte shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.0% of Medpace shares are held by institutional investors. 17.5% of Incyte shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.3% of Medpace shares are held by company 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.
Incyte currently has a consensus price target of $74.93, indicating a potential upside of 31.23%. Medpace has a consensus price target of $443.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.64%. Given Incyte's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Incyte is more favorable than Medpace.
Incyte has a beta of 0.69, meaning that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Medpace has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Incyte and Medpace tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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