Free Trial

Incyte (INCY) Competitors

Incyte logo
$60.68 -0.58 (-0.95%)
Closing price 03/27/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
Extended Trading
$61.33 +0.65 (+1.06%)
As of 03/27/2025 04:20 PM Eastern
Extended trading is trading that happens on electronic markets outside of regular trading hours. This is a fair market value extended hours price provided by Polygon.io. Learn more.

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

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

Incyte vs.

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ALNY) and Incyte (NASDAQ:INCY) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.

Incyte has a net margin of 0.77% compared to Alnylam Pharmaceuticals' net margin of -12.37%. Incyte's return on equity of 0.05% beat Alnylam Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals-12.37% N/A -6.83%
Incyte 0.77%0.05%0.04%

In the previous week, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals had 34 more articles in the media than Incyte. MarketBeat recorded 61 mentions for Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and 27 mentions for Incyte. Incyte's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Alnylam Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.74 indicating that Incyte is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
25 Very Positive mention(s)
10 Positive mention(s)
11 Neutral mention(s)
3 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Incyte
17 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
3 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.39, suggesting that its share price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Incyte has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Incyte received 68 more outperform votes than Alnylam Pharmaceuticals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 76.28% of users gave Alnylam Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 72.33% of users gave Incyte an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Alnylam PharmaceuticalsOutperform Votes
1158
76.28%
Underperform Votes
360
23.72%
IncyteOutperform Votes
1226
72.33%
Underperform Votes
469
27.67%

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals currently has a consensus target price of $312.30, suggesting a potential upside of 15.23%. Incyte has a consensus target price of $74.88, suggesting a potential upside of 23.39%. Given Incyte's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Incyte is more favorable than Alnylam Pharmaceuticals.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
1 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
20 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.76
Incyte
1 Sell rating(s)
13 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.21

93.0% of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.0% of Incyte shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.6% of Incyte shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals$2.25B15.61-$278.16M-$2.17-124.89
Incyte$4.24B2.77$32.62M$0.27224.74

Summary

Incyte beats Alnylam Pharmaceuticals on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

Remove Ads
Get Incyte News Delivered to You Automatically

Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for INCY and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.

New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding {thisCompany.Symbol} and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Skip Chart

Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Skip Chart

INCY vs. The Competition

MetricIncyteCommercial physical research IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$11.74B$3.68B$5.64B$8.06B
Dividend YieldN/A2.02%4.57%4.01%
P/E Ratio224.75113.4223.1319.03
Price / Sales2.77153.19383.8993.17
Price / Cash128.9434.5738.1634.64
Price / Book3.412.606.944.33
Net Income$32.62M$118.81M$3.20B$247.06M
7 Day Performance-2.00%-3.31%-2.33%-0.37%
1 Month Performance-17.44%-19.43%2.84%-3.85%
1 Year Performance6.51%-11.63%10.75%1.27%

Incyte Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
INCY
Incyte
4.7096 of 5 stars
$60.68
-0.9%
$74.88
+23.4%
+6.2%$11.74B$4.24B224.752,320Positive News
ALNY
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
4.2649 of 5 stars
$290.70
+2.6%
$312.30
+7.4%
+75.5%$37.63B$2.25B-133.962,230High Trading Volume
BIIB
Biogen
4.9116 of 5 stars
$141.60
+0.5%
$213.33
+50.7%
-35.1%$20.73B$9.68B12.658,720Positive News
UTHR
United Therapeutics
4.9404 of 5 stars
$319.86
+2.2%
$388.25
+21.4%
+26.6%$14.37B$2.88B14.05980Insider Trade
Short Interest ↓
Positive News
BMRN
BioMarin Pharmaceutical
4.9038 of 5 stars
$71.99
+1.1%
$94.00
+30.6%
-17.8%$13.73B$2.85B32.723,401Options Volume
NBIX
Neurocrine Biosciences
4.9292 of 5 stars
$115.60
+3.3%
$165.24
+42.9%
-17.3%$11.53B$2.36B35.141,200Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Positive News
EXEL
Exelixis
4.5566 of 5 stars
$37.72
+2.1%
$37.59
-0.3%
+54.4%$10.56B$2.17B21.311,220Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Positive News
EXAS
Exact Sciences
4.5798 of 5 stars
$47.09
+3.2%
$70.83
+50.4%
-32.7%$8.75B$2.76B-8.456,400News Coverage
Positive News
RGEN
Repligen
4.7538 of 5 stars
$145.15
+3.7%
$178.64
+23.1%
-25.8%$8.15B$634.44M-284.612,020Positive News
HALO
Halozyme Therapeutics
4.283 of 5 stars
$64.02
-1.7%
$62.78
-1.9%
+58.3%$7.91B$1.02B18.66390Positive News
MDGL
Madrigal Pharmaceuticals
3.5502 of 5 stars
$346.40
+1.4%
$378.44
+9.3%
+30.3%$7.65B$180.13M-13.8190Positive News
Remove Ads

Related Companies and Tools


This page (NASDAQ:INCY) was last updated on 3/28/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
From Our Partners