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ARWR vs. QGEN, ASND, ROIV, RVMD, LEGN, BBIO, AXSM, BPMC, TLX, and ELAN

Should you be buying Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals include Qiagen (QGEN), Ascendis Pharma A/S (ASND), Roivant Sciences (ROIV), Revolution Medicines (RVMD), Legend Biotech (LEGN), BridgeBio Pharma (BBIO), Axsome Therapeutics (AXSM), Blueprint Medicines (BPMC), Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited American Depositary Shares (TLX), and Elanco Animal Health (ELAN). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals vs.

Qiagen (NYSE:QGEN) and Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ARWR) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, dividends and community ranking.

Qiagen has a beta of 0.36, suggesting that its share price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals had 10 more articles in the media than Qiagen. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals and 12 mentions for Qiagen. Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals' average media sentiment score of 0.35 beat Qiagen's score of -0.37 indicating that Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Qiagen
1 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals
3 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
6 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Qiagen presently has a consensus target price of $47.71, indicating a potential upside of 20.73%. Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals has a consensus target price of $41.44, indicating a potential upside of 108.26%. Given Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than Qiagen.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Qiagen
0 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.30
Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.60

70.0% of Qiagen shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.6% of Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.0% of Qiagen shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals received 300 more outperform votes than Qiagen when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.51% of users gave Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 60.29% of users gave Qiagen an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
QiagenOutperform Votes
249
60.29%
Underperform Votes
164
39.71%
Arrowhead PharmaceuticalsOutperform Votes
549
65.51%
Underperform Votes
289
34.49%

Qiagen has a net margin of 4.23% compared to Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals' net margin of 0.00%. Qiagen's return on equity of 13.92% beat Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Qiagen4.23% 13.92% 8.40%
Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals N/A -236.60%-64.09%

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Qiagen$1.98B4.43$83.59M$0.36110.03
Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals$3.55M706.87-$599.49M-$5.17-3.85

Summary

Qiagen and Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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ARWR vs. The Competition

MetricArrowhead PharmaceuticalsPharmaceutical IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$2.51B$7.04B$5.78B$8.98B
Dividend YieldN/A2.87%4.78%3.85%
P/E Ratio-3.856.1326.4618.82
Price / Sales706.87313.46457.9780.74
Price / CashN/A67.8344.0437.47
Price / Book45.236.747.634.64
Net Income-$599.49M$138.11M$3.18B$245.69M
7 Day Performance-0.25%-2.02%-1.82%-2.63%
1 Month Performance0.71%-1.54%0.22%-2.37%
1 Year Performance-31.80%-3.14%17.49%13.65%

Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ARWR
Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals
4.1029 of 5 stars
$19.90
-5.1%
$41.44
+108.3%
-28.3%$2.51B$3.55M-3.85400
QGEN
Qiagen
4.4279 of 5 stars
$39.85
-0.5%
$48.78
+22.4%
-7.3%$8.84B$1.98B110.975,967Analyst Downgrade
ASND
Ascendis Pharma A/S
3.1758 of 5 stars
$144.08
+1.1%
$193.43
+34.3%
-1.4%$8.74B$288.08M-17.83640Analyst Forecast
ROIV
Roivant Sciences
2.7251 of 5 stars
$10.56
+1.1%
$18.08
+71.2%
-7.1%$7.69B$124.79M1.87860Insider Trade
RVMD
Revolution Medicines
4.5108 of 5 stars
$40.67
-1.6%
$66.25
+62.9%
+44.9%$6.84B$11.58M-11.33250
LEGN
Legend Biotech
2.5939 of 5 stars
$36.42
+0.1%
$79.50
+118.3%
-35.2%$6.65B$285.14M-38.341,800Positive News
BBIO
BridgeBio Pharma
4.7193 of 5 stars
$34.90
+10.6%
$49.08
+40.6%
+2.4%$6.60B$9.30M-14.48400Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
News Coverage
Gap Up
AXSM
Axsome Therapeutics
4.5264 of 5 stars
$131.15
-0.4%
$147.13
+12.2%
+59.2%$6.36B$270.60M-20.08380Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
BPMC
Blueprint Medicines
2.9925 of 5 stars
$93.94
-1.3%
$123.83
+31.8%
+3.4%$5.97B$249.38M-44.52640Earnings Report
TLX
Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited American Depositary Shares
N/A$17.19
-0.6%
$22.00
+28.0%
N/A$5.79B$637.08M0.00N/ANews Coverage
Gap Up
ELAN
Elanco Animal Health
4.0563 of 5 stars
$11.26
-3.4%
$16.29
+44.7%
-31.0%$5.57B$4.42B28.159,300Analyst Forecast

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