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Legend Biotech (LEGN) Competitors

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$34.08 +0.06 (+0.18%)
(As of 12/20/2024 05:31 PM ET)

LEGN vs. TEVA, BGNE, MRNA, VTRS, SMMT, GMAB, RDY, SRPT, CTLT, and PCVX

Should you be buying Legend Biotech stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Legend Biotech include Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (TEVA), BeiGene (BGNE), Moderna (MRNA), Viatris (VTRS), Summit Therapeutics (SMMT), Genmab A/S (GMAB), Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (RDY), Sarepta Therapeutics (SRPT), Catalent (CTLT), and Vaxcyte (PCVX). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Legend Biotech vs.

Legend Biotech (NASDAQ:LEGN) and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (NYSE:TEVA) are both medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and earnings.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries has a net margin of -5.73% compared to Legend Biotech's net margin of -66.92%. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries' return on equity of 42.92% beat Legend Biotech's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Legend Biotech-66.92% -29.69% -19.45%
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries -5.73%42.92%7.25%

Legend Biotech has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Teva Pharmaceutical Industries. Legend Biotech is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Legend Biotech$520.18M11.97-$518.25M-$0.95-35.87
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries$16.77B1.49-$559M-$0.85-25.99

Legend Biotech currently has a consensus price target of $81.54, suggesting a potential upside of 139.26%. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries has a consensus price target of $20.88, suggesting a potential downside of 5.50%. Given Legend Biotech's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Legend Biotech is more favorable than Teva Pharmaceutical Industries.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Legend Biotech
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
13 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.75

70.9% of Legend Biotech shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.0% of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Legend Biotech shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries received 1244 more outperform votes than Legend Biotech when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.55% of users gave Legend Biotech an outperform vote while only 67.81% of users gave Teva Pharmaceutical Industries an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Legend BiotechOutperform Votes
83
71.55%
Underperform Votes
33
28.45%
Teva Pharmaceutical IndustriesOutperform Votes
1327
67.81%
Underperform Votes
630
32.19%

In the previous week, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries had 20 more articles in the media than Legend Biotech. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Teva Pharmaceutical Industries and 7 mentions for Legend Biotech. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat Legend Biotech's score of 0.49 indicating that Teva Pharmaceutical Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Legend Biotech
3 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
10 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
9 Neutral mention(s)
3 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Legend Biotech has a beta of 0.08, indicating that its stock price is 92% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries beats Legend Biotech on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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LEGN vs. The Competition

MetricLegend BiotechPharmaceutical IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$6.22B$6.58B$5.13B$9.07B
Dividend YieldN/A2.99%5.08%4.23%
P/E Ratio-35.8710.5489.7417.18
Price / Sales11.97195.791,116.12116.95
Price / CashN/A57.1642.8237.86
Price / Book4.955.094.774.78
Net Income-$518.25M$151.83M$120.15M$225.60M
7 Day Performance-2.96%-2.13%-1.92%-1.23%
1 Month Performance-14.26%-3.10%11.47%3.36%
1 Year Performance-43.24%11.54%30.52%16.60%

Legend Biotech Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LEGN
Legend Biotech
1.548 of 5 stars
$34.08
+0.2%
$81.54
+139.3%
-43.2%$6.22B$520.18M-35.871,800
TEVA
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
1.8881 of 5 stars
$16.66
+1.0%
$19.67
+18.0%
+112.2%$18.87B$16.77B-19.7937,851Analyst Downgrade
Options Volume
News Coverage
BGNE
BeiGene
2.6145 of 5 stars
$176.52
-1.6%
$253.69
+43.7%
+0.7%$17.20B$2.46B-21.7710,600
MRNA
Moderna
4.2706 of 5 stars
$41.59
-0.6%
$79.50
+91.2%
-54.3%$16.00B$5.06B-7.195,600Analyst Downgrade
VTRS
Viatris
2.056 of 5 stars
$12.71
+0.6%
$13.67
+7.5%
+19.8%$15.17B$15.05B-17.0738,000News Coverage
SMMT
Summit Therapeutics
3.2703 of 5 stars
$18.71
+4.9%
$33.33
+78.2%
+636.9%$13.80B$700,000.00-63.68105News Coverage
Gap Down
GMAB
Genmab A/S
4.2345 of 5 stars
$20.14
-0.1%
$45.20
+124.4%
-33.5%$13.33B$19.84B19.582,204Positive News
High Trading Volume
RDY
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories
1.86 of 5 stars
$14.75
+2.0%
$17.00
+15.3%
+15.8%$12.31B$299.87B22.9527,048Analyst Downgrade
News Coverage
Gap Up
SRPT
Sarepta Therapeutics
4.8145 of 5 stars
$126.12
+1.9%
$178.71
+41.7%
+31.8%$12.05B$1.64B98.971,314Analyst Forecast
CTLT
Catalent
2.7663 of 5 stars
$63.48
+0.7%
$63.40
-0.1%
N/A$11.52B$4.38B-27.9116,900High Trading Volume
PCVX
Vaxcyte
1.6009 of 5 stars
$90.59
+3.3%
$147.50
+62.8%
+45.4%$11.29BN/A-19.07160Analyst Forecast
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