HALO vs. BIIB, UTHR, BMRN, INCY, NBIX, EXEL, EXAS, MDGL, RGEN, and ALKS
Should you be buying Halozyme Therapeutics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Halozyme Therapeutics include Biogen (BIIB), United Therapeutics (UTHR), BioMarin Pharmaceutical (BMRN), Incyte (INCY), Neurocrine Biosciences (NBIX), Exelixis (EXEL), Exact Sciences (EXAS), Madrigal Pharmaceuticals (MDGL), Repligen (RGEN), and Alkermes (ALKS). These companies are all part of the "biotechnology" industry.
Halozyme Therapeutics vs.
Biogen (NASDAQ:BIIB) and Halozyme Therapeutics (NASDAQ:HALO) are both medical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
Biogen has a beta of 0.01, meaning that its stock price is 99% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Halozyme Therapeutics has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Biogen had 9 more articles in the media than Halozyme Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Biogen and 23 mentions for Halozyme Therapeutics. Halozyme Therapeutics' average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat Biogen's score of 1.14 indicating that Halozyme Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Biogen currently has a consensus price target of $213.33, suggesting a potential upside of 69.59%. Halozyme Therapeutics has a consensus price target of $62.78, suggesting a potential upside of 4.24%. Given Biogen's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Biogen is more favorable than Halozyme Therapeutics.
Biogen received 1288 more outperform votes than Halozyme Therapeutics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.44% of users gave Biogen an outperform vote while only 69.57% of users gave Halozyme Therapeutics an outperform vote.
Halozyme Therapeutics has a net margin of 43.74% compared to Biogen's net margin of 16.87%. Halozyme Therapeutics' return on equity of 157.78% beat Biogen's return on equity.
Biogen has higher revenue and earnings than Halozyme Therapeutics. Biogen is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Halozyme Therapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
87.9% of Biogen shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.8% of Halozyme Therapeutics shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Biogen shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Halozyme Therapeutics shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Halozyme Therapeutics beats Biogen on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:HALO) was last updated on 4/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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