IBRX vs. HALO, RVMD, EXEL, CRSP, KRYS, IMVT, PCVX, SWTX, IOVA, and DNLI
Should you be buying ImmunityBio stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ImmunityBio include Halozyme Therapeutics (HALO), Revolution Medicines (RVMD), Exelixis (EXEL), CRISPR Therapeutics (CRSP), Krystal Biotech (KRYS), Immunovant (IMVT), Vaxcyte (PCVX), SpringWorks Therapeutics (SWTX), Iovance Biotherapeutics (IOVA), and Denali Therapeutics (DNLI). These companies are all part of the "biological products, except diagnostic" industry.
Halozyme Therapeutics (NASDAQ:HALO) and ImmunityBio (NASDAQ:IBRX) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, risk and profitability.
Halozyme Therapeutics has a net margin of 36.94% compared to Halozyme Therapeutics' net margin of -198,994.05%. ImmunityBio's return on equity of 225.71% beat Halozyme Therapeutics' return on equity.
Halozyme Therapeutics received 499 more outperform votes than ImmunityBio when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.15% of users gave Halozyme Therapeutics an outperform vote while only 13.04% of users gave ImmunityBio an outperform vote.
Halozyme Therapeutics has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ImmunityBio has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Halozyme Therapeutics has higher revenue and earnings than ImmunityBio. ImmunityBio is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Halozyme Therapeutics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Halozyme Therapeutics had 6 more articles in the media than ImmunityBio. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Halozyme Therapeutics and 4 mentions for ImmunityBio. ImmunityBio's average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Halozyme Therapeutics' score of -0.11 indicating that Halozyme Therapeutics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
97.8% of Halozyme Therapeutics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.6% of ImmunityBio shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Halozyme Therapeutics shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 83.4% of ImmunityBio shares are held by company 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.
Halozyme Therapeutics presently has a consensus target price of $53.14, indicating a potential upside of 17.18%. ImmunityBio has a consensus target price of $6.00, indicating a potential downside of 11.76%. Given ImmunityBio's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Halozyme Therapeutics is more favorable than ImmunityBio.
Summary
Halozyme Therapeutics beats ImmunityBio on 16 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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