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BIIB vs. REGN, ALNY, UTHR, INCY, BMRN, NBIX, EXEL, EXAS, RGEN, and HALO

Should you be buying Biogen stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Biogen include Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (REGN), Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (ALNY), United Therapeutics (UTHR), Incyte (INCY), BioMarin Pharmaceutical (BMRN), Neurocrine Biosciences (NBIX), Exelixis (EXEL), Exact Sciences (EXAS), Repligen (RGEN), and Halozyme Therapeutics (HALO). These companies are all part of the "biotechnology" industry.

Biogen vs.

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:REGN) and Biogen (NASDAQ:BIIB) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability and risk.

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has a net margin of 31.07% compared to Biogen's net margin of 16.87%. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of 16.32% beat Biogen's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals31.07% 16.32% 12.76%
Biogen 16.87%14.98%8.76%

In the previous week, Biogen had 3 more articles in the media than Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 55 mentions for Biogen and 52 mentions for Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. Biogen's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Regeneron Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.46 indicating that Biogen is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
27 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
23 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Biogen
19 Very Positive mention(s)
6 Positive mention(s)
10 Neutral mention(s)
6 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals presently has a consensus target price of $973.13, indicating a potential upside of 39.63%. Biogen has a consensus target price of $211.85, indicating a potential upside of 52.33%. Given Biogen's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Biogen is more favorable than Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
1 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
16 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.76
Biogen
0 Sell rating(s)
17 Hold rating(s)
13 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.43

Biogen received 268 more outperform votes than Regeneron Pharmaceuticals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.55% of users gave Biogen an outperform vote while only 66.93% of users gave Regeneron Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Regeneron PharmaceuticalsOutperform Votes
1548
66.93%
Underperform Votes
765
33.07%
BiogenOutperform Votes
1816
71.55%
Underperform Votes
722
28.45%

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.08, suggesting that its stock price is 92% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Biogen has a beta of -0.08, suggesting that its stock price is 108% less volatile than the S&P 500.

83.3% of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.9% of Biogen shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.5% of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Biogen shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals$14.20B5.36$4.41B$38.2818.21
Biogen$9.68B2.10$1.63B$11.1912.43

Summary

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals beats Biogen on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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BIIB vs. The Competition

MetricBiogenBiological Products IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$20.36B$3.13B$5.81B$9.13B
Dividend YieldN/A1.57%4.78%3.85%
P/E Ratio12.4329.9025.9319.18
Price / Sales2.10373.33463.3381.20
Price / Cash5.91183.5344.0437.47
Price / Book1.223.647.714.77
Net Income$1.63B-$71.72M$3.18B$245.80M
7 Day Performance1.27%0.03%-0.52%-0.80%
1 Month Performance-1.35%2.67%1.71%-0.44%
1 Year Performance-37.10%-9.50%18.52%16.44%

Biogen Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BIIB
Biogen
4.7769 of 5 stars
$139.55
+1.8%
$211.85
+51.8%
-37.5%$20.43B$9.68B12.477,605Analyst Forecast
REGN
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
4.6472 of 5 stars
$673.60
-0.1%
$973.13
+44.5%
-26.5%$74.02B$14.20B17.6013,450Dividend Announcement
ALNY
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
4.5539 of 5 stars
$256.45
-3.2%
$299.43
+16.8%
+68.7%$33.08B$1.83B-97.882,100Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
UTHR
United Therapeutics
4.4129 of 5 stars
$370.58
+0.0%
$382.08
+3.1%
+71.5%$16.55B$2.33B16.271,168Insider Trade
INCY
Incyte
4.5814 of 5 stars
$70.42
+0.6%
$75.59
+7.3%
+21.4%$13.57B$3.70B503.042,524
BMRN
BioMarin Pharmaceutical
4.9364 of 5 stars
$64.85
+0.7%
$94.20
+45.3%
-22.5%$12.36B$2.42B38.833,401Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
NBIX
Neurocrine Biosciences
4.9783 of 5 stars
$115.02
-1.6%
$166.90
+45.1%
-12.5%$11.65B$2.36B34.961,400Analyst Downgrade
Analyst Revision
Gap Up
EXEL
Exelixis
4.6803 of 5 stars
$35.00
+1.5%
$37.24
+6.4%
+70.1%$10.00B$1.83B22.441,310Analyst Upgrade
Insider Trade
Gap Up
EXAS
Exact Sciences
4.671 of 5 stars
$49.31
-2.5%
$72.76
+47.6%
-21.1%$9.13B$2.50B-42.146,600Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
RGEN
Repligen
4.3262 of 5 stars
$146.92
+0.5%
$182.91
+24.5%
-18.6%$8.23B$638.76M-397.071,783Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
HALO
Halozyme Therapeutics
4.5001 of 5 stars
$58.29
-0.5%
$60.89
+4.5%
+59.6%$7.42B$829.25M19.30390Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
News Coverage

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