UPR vs. UDG, HCM, INDV, CLIN, EMIS, ONT, GNS, VEC, SPI, and CRW
Should you be buying Uniphar stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Uniphar include UDG Healthcare (UDG), HUTCHMED (HCM), Indivior (INDV), Clinigen Group (CLIN), EMIS Group (EMIS), Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT), Genus (GNS), Vectura Group (VEC), Spire Healthcare Group (SPI), and Craneware (CRW). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Uniphar vs.
Uniphar (LON:UPR) and UDG Healthcare (LON:UDG) are both medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and earnings.
Uniphar presently has a consensus target price of GBX 310, indicating a potential upside of 55.78%. Given Uniphar's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Uniphar is more favorable than UDG Healthcare.
45.3% of Uniphar shares are held by institutional investors. 10.1% of Uniphar shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Uniphar pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. UDG Healthcare pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.17 per share. Uniphar pays out 13.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. UDG Healthcare pays out 0.7% 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.
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 0.00 equaled UDG Healthcare'saverage media sentiment score.
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.
UDG Healthcare received 512 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.
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.
Summary
Uniphar beats UDG Healthcare on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:UPR) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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