REGN vs. AGN, AMGN, VRTX, GILD, ALXN, BIIB, ALNY, RPRX, BGNE, and NBIX
Should you be buying Regeneron Pharmaceuticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals include Allergan (AGN), Amgen (AMGN), Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX), Gilead Sciences (GILD), Alexion Pharmaceuticals (ALXN), Biogen (BIIB), Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (ALNY), Royalty Pharma (RPRX), BeiGene (BGNE), and Neurocrine Biosciences (NBIX).
Allergan (NYSE:AGN) and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:REGN) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends and institutional ownership.
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has a consensus target price of $989.36, indicating a potential upside of 2.37%. Given Allergan's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Regeneron Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than Allergan.
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals received 109 more outperform votes than Allergan when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 79.88% of users gave Allergan an outperform vote while only 66.59% of users gave Regeneron Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote.
Allergan has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.17, suggesting that its stock price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has a net margin of 29.45% compared to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals' net margin of -15.44%. Allergan's return on equity of 16.83% beat Regeneron Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.
83.9% of Allergan shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.3% of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Allergan shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.5% of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals had 13 more articles in the media than Allergan. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and 0 mentions for Allergan. Allergan's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Regeneron Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.00 indicating that Regeneron Pharmaceuticals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Allergan. Allergan is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals beats Allergan on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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