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$50.73 +0.57 (+1.14%)
(As of 11/13/2024 ET)

EXAS vs. PRAH, CRL, MEDP, SYNH, ALNY, BIIB, UTHR, INCY, NBIX, and BMRN

Should you be buying Exact Sciences stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Exact Sciences include PRA Health Sciences (PRAH), Charles River Laboratories International (CRL), Medpace (MEDP), Syneos Health (SYNH), Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (ALNY), Biogen (BIIB), United Therapeutics (UTHR), Incyte (INCY), Neurocrine Biosciences (NBIX), and BioMarin Pharmaceutical (BMRN). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.

Exact Sciences vs.

Exact Sciences (NASDAQ:EXAS) and PRA Health Sciences (NASDAQ:PRAH) are both medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation and community ranking.

Exact Sciences presently has a consensus target price of $74.47, indicating a potential upside of 46.80%. Given Exact Sciences' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Exact Sciences is more favorable than PRA Health Sciences.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Exact Sciences
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
18 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.95
PRA Health Sciences
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Exact Sciences received 608 more outperform votes than PRA Health Sciences when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.92% of users gave Exact Sciences an outperform vote while only 54.69% of users gave PRA Health Sciences an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Exact SciencesOutperform Votes
975
72.92%
Underperform Votes
362
27.08%
PRA Health SciencesOutperform Votes
367
54.69%
Underperform Votes
304
45.31%

In the previous week, Exact Sciences had 29 more articles in the media than PRA Health Sciences. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Exact Sciences and 0 mentions for PRA Health Sciences. PRA Health Sciences' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Exact Sciences' score of -0.05 indicating that PRA Health Sciences is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Exact Sciences Neutral
PRA Health Sciences Neutral

88.8% of Exact Sciences shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.9% of PRA Health Sciences shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Exact Sciences shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of PRA Health Sciences shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

PRA Health Sciences has higher revenue and earnings than Exact Sciences. Exact Sciences is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PRA Health Sciences, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Exact Sciences$2.50B3.76-$204.15M-$1.17-43.36
PRA Health Sciences$3.18B3.36$197.04M$3.9042.36

Exact Sciences has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PRA Health Sciences has a beta of 1.31, meaning that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.

PRA Health Sciences has a net margin of 6.40% compared to Exact Sciences' net margin of -7.95%. PRA Health Sciences' return on equity of 20.49% beat Exact Sciences' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Exact Sciences-7.95% -6.17% -2.98%
PRA Health Sciences 6.40%20.49%7.07%

Summary

PRA Health Sciences beats Exact Sciences on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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EXAS vs. The Competition

MetricExact SciencesMedical laboratories IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$9.39B$2.94B$5.16B$8.94B
Dividend YieldN/A1.67%5.04%4.03%
P/E Ratio-43.3613.3797.1815.21
Price / Sales3.76196.121,298.2292.29
Price / Cash2,945.27381.6139.4036.42
Price / Book2.923.336.425.98
Net Income-$204.15M-$32.88M$115.02M$225.08M
7 Day Performance-7.29%-0.65%-0.77%0.37%
1 Month Performance-28.51%-1.00%4.85%5.73%
1 Year Performance-14.41%38.15%41.37%31.75%

Exact Sciences Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
EXAS
Exact Sciences
4.7731 of 5 stars
$50.73
+1.1%
$74.47
+46.8%
-14.4%$9.39B$2.50B-43.366,600Analyst Forecast
Insider Buying
Short Interest ↓
High Trading Volume
PRAH
PRA Health Sciences
N/A$165.21
flat
N/A+0.0%$10.70B$3.18B50.5218,100Analyst Forecast
CRL
Charles River Laboratories International
4.5527 of 5 stars
$215.39
+2.4%
N/A+21.5%$11.06B$4.13B26.9621,800Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Insider Selling
Short Interest ↓
Analyst Revision
MEDP
Medpace
4.4449 of 5 stars
$362.79
+2.7%
N/A+31.2%$11.28B$2.07B31.775,900
SYNH
Syneos Health
N/A$42.98
+0.0%
N/A+0.0%$4.46B$5.39B62.2928,768Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
ALNY
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
4.6477 of 5 stars
$277.43
+1.9%
N/A+60.4%$35.21B$1.83B-105.892,100Analyst Downgrade
Short Interest ↓
BIIB
Biogen
4.8617 of 5 stars
$173.04
-0.5%
N/A-25.5%$25.22B$9.61B15.637,570Analyst Revision
UTHR
United Therapeutics
4.5399 of 5 stars
$410.00
+1.8%
N/A+77.7%$18.30B$2.76B18.011,168Insider Selling
Positive News
INCY
Incyte
4.2047 of 5 stars
$83.38
+1.3%
N/A+51.5%$16.06B$3.70B595.612,524Positive News
NBIX
Neurocrine Biosciences
4.9797 of 5 stars
$125.74
+1.4%
N/A+13.8%$12.73B$1.89B33.711,400Analyst Forecast
BMRN
BioMarin Pharmaceutical
4.9837 of 5 stars
$67.07
+0.2%
N/A-20.1%$12.61B$2.42B40.163,401

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This page (NASDAQ:EXAS) was last updated on 11/14/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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