MRNA vs. BIIB, BNTX, ARGX, GILD, NBIX, TECH, QGEN, RGEN, CRSP, and DNLI
Should you be buying Moderna stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Moderna include Biogen (BIIB), BioNTech (BNTX), argenx (ARGX), Gilead Sciences (GILD), Neurocrine Biosciences (NBIX), Bio-Techne (TECH), Qiagen (QGEN), Repligen (RGEN), CRISPR Therapeutics (CRSP), and Denali Therapeutics (DNLI). These companies are all part of the "biological products, except diagnostic" industry.
Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) and Biogen (NASDAQ:BIIB) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings and profitability.
Moderna presently has a consensus target price of $126.46, suggesting a potential downside of 4.69%. Biogen has a consensus target price of $288.46, suggesting a potential upside of 25.39%. Given Biogen's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Biogen is more favorable than Moderna.
Moderna has a beta of 1.57, indicating that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Biogen has a beta of -0.01, indicating that its share price is 101% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Biogen received 1578 more outperform votes than Moderna when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.89% of users gave Biogen an outperform vote while only 57.77% of users gave Moderna an outperform vote.
75.3% of Moderna shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.9% of Biogen shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.2% of Moderna shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Biogen shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Moderna had 12 more articles in the media than Biogen. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for Moderna and 28 mentions for Biogen. Biogen's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Moderna's score of 0.53 indicating that Biogen is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Biogen has a net margin of 12.07% compared to Moderna's net margin of -115.82%. Biogen's return on equity of 14.83% beat Moderna's return on equity.
Biogen has higher revenue and earnings than Moderna. Moderna is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Biogen, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Biogen beats Moderna on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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