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Uniphar (UPR) Competitors

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GBX 230 -4.00 (-1.71%)
As of 11:01 AM Eastern

UPR vs. UDG, ABC, HCM, CLIN, EMIS, ONT, GNS, INDV, VEC, and CTH

Should you be buying Uniphar stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Uniphar include UDG Healthcare (UDG), Abcam (ABC), HUTCHMED (HCM), Clinigen Group (CLIN), EMIS Group (EMIS), Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT), Genus (GNS), Indivior (INDV), Vectura Group (VEC), and CareTech (CTH). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.

Uniphar vs.

UDG Healthcare (LON:UDG) and Uniphar (LON:UPR) are both medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk and community ranking.

Uniphar has a net margin of 1.68% compared to UDG Healthcare's net margin of 0.00%. Uniphar's return on equity of 13.18% beat UDG Healthcare's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
UDG HealthcareN/A N/A N/A
Uniphar 1.68%13.18%3.76%

Uniphar has a consensus price target of GBX 310, suggesting a potential upside of 34.78%. Given Uniphar's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Uniphar is more favorable than UDG Healthcare.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
UDG Healthcare
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Uniphar
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

UDG Healthcare received 511 more outperform votes than Uniphar when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Uniphar an outperform vote while only 74.68% of users gave UDG Healthcare an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
UDG HealthcareOutperform Votes
519
74.68%
Underperform Votes
176
25.32%
UnipharOutperform Votes
8
100.00%
Underperform Votes
No Votes

UDG Healthcare pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.17 per share. Uniphar pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. UDG Healthcare pays out 0.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Uniphar pays out 13.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

45.3% of Uniphar shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.1% of Uniphar shares are owned by 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.

Uniphar has higher revenue and earnings than UDG Healthcare. UDG Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Uniphar, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
UDG Healthcare£1.25B0.00N/A£25.40N/A
Uniphar£3.03B0.24£51.04M£14.3815.99

In the previous week, Uniphar had 1 more articles in the media than UDG Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Uniphar and 0 mentions for UDG Healthcare. Uniphar's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat UDG Healthcare's score of 0.00 indicating that Uniphar is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
UDG Healthcare Neutral
Uniphar Positive

Summary

Uniphar beats UDG Healthcare on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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UPR vs. The Competition

MetricUnipharMedical Distribution IndustryMedical SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£715.95M£365.90M£5.42B£2.52B
Dividend Yield0.77%1.33%5.44%4.96%
P/E Ratio15.995.3722.18131.73
Price / Sales0.2412.03397.31238,268.04
Price / Cash9.979.9738.2028.02
Price / Book1.801.806.834.47
Net Income£51.04M£51.04M£3.20B£5.81B
7 Day Performance-1.29%-2.39%5.79%1.56%
1 Month Performance6.24%-3.49%-5.53%5.40%
1 Year Performance3.14%-9.18%16.85%101.20%

Uniphar Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
UPR
Uniphar
2.6365 of 5 stars
GBX 230
-1.7%
GBX 310
+34.8%
+6.4%£715.95M£3.03B15.993,000News Coverage
UDG
UDG Healthcare
N/AN/AN/AN/A£2.72B£1.25B42.489,000
ABC
Abcam
N/AN/AN/AN/A£2.81B£350.40M20,433.331,650Gap Up
High Trading Volume
HCM
HUTCHMED
N/AGBX 218
-3.1%
N/A-20.0%£2.37B£771.01M-55.641,760News Coverage
Gap Down
CLIN
Clinigen Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.23B£565.60M64.691,000
EMIS
EMIS Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.23B£176.86M4,085.111,560News Coverage
ONT
Oxford Nanopore Technologies
1.9301 of 5 stars
GBX 125.47
+0.3%
GBX 233.33
+86.0%
+19.3%£1.19B£184.78M-6.751,281
GNS
Genus
1.6637 of 5 stars
GBX 1,710.30
+3.4%
GBX 2,150
+25.7%
-7.8%£1.12B£666.67M141.77480
INDV
Indivior
1.6677 of 5 stars
GBX 695
-1.4%
GBX 1,650
+137.4%
-54.3%£1.09B£1.40B-576.261,000News Coverage
Gap Down
VEC
Vectura Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.01B£190.60M8.209,200
CTH
CareTech
N/AN/AN/AN/A£850.02M£495.40M10,714.2911,000

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This page (LON:UPR) was last updated on 4/24/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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