BHVN vs. SMMT, RARE, IDYA, XENE, PBH, AXSM, CORT, HCM, ARWR, and INSM
Should you be buying Biohaven stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Biohaven include Summit Therapeutics (SMMT), Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical (RARE), IDEAYA Biosciences (IDYA), Xenon Pharmaceuticals (XENE), Prestige Consumer Healthcare (PBH), Axsome Therapeutics (AXSM), Corcept Therapeutics (CORT), HUTCHMED (HCM), Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals (ARWR), and Insmed (INSM). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Biohaven (NYSE:BHVN) and Summit Therapeutics (NASDAQ:SMMT) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, profitability, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.
88.8% of Biohaven shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.6% of Summit Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. 16.0% of Biohaven shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 83.7% of Summit Therapeutics 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.
Summit Therapeutics' return on equity of -125.07% beat Biohaven's return on equity.
Biohaven has a beta of 1.26, suggesting that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Summit Therapeutics has a beta of -1.13, suggesting that its share price is 213% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Biohaven received 86 more outperform votes than Summit Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.43% of users gave Biohaven an outperform vote while only 57.00% of users gave Summit Therapeutics an outperform vote.
Biohaven currently has a consensus target price of $51.63, indicating a potential upside of 38.15%. Summit Therapeutics has a consensus target price of $7.50, indicating a potential upside of 68.92%. Given Summit Therapeutics' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Summit Therapeutics is more favorable than Biohaven.
Biohaven has higher revenue and earnings than Summit Therapeutics. Summit Therapeutics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Biohaven, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Biohaven had 26 more articles in the media than Summit Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Biohaven and 0 mentions for Summit Therapeutics. Biohaven's average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat Summit Therapeutics' score of 0.00 indicating that Biohaven is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Biohaven beats Summit Therapeutics on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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