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Legend Biotech (LEGN) Competitors

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$39.91 -0.23 (-0.57%)
(As of 10:31 AM ET)

LEGN vs. EIDX, PRNB, AUTL, BLUE, BNTX, TEVA, BGNE, VTRS, MRNA, and SMMT

Should you be buying Legend Biotech stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Legend Biotech include Eidos Therapeutics (EIDX), Principia Biopharma (PRNB), Autolus Therapeutics (AUTL), bluebird bio (BLUE), BioNTech (BNTX), Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (TEVA), BeiGene (BGNE), Viatris (VTRS), Moderna (MRNA), and Summit Therapeutics (SMMT). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.

Legend Biotech vs.

Eidos Therapeutics (NASDAQ:EIDX) and Legend Biotech (NASDAQ:LEGN) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, profitability and valuation.

In the previous week, Legend Biotech had 28 more articles in the media than Eidos Therapeutics. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Legend Biotech and 0 mentions for Eidos Therapeutics. Legend Biotech's average media sentiment score of 0.07 beat Eidos Therapeutics' score of 0.00 indicating that Legend Biotech is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Eidos Therapeutics Neutral
Legend Biotech Neutral

Eidos Therapeutics has a beta of -0.16, meaning that its stock price is 116% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Legend Biotech has a beta of 0.11, meaning that its stock price is 89% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Eidos Therapeutics received 66 more outperform votes than Legend Biotech when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.80% of users gave Legend Biotech an outperform vote while only 63.20% of users gave Eidos Therapeutics an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Eidos TherapeuticsOutperform Votes
146
63.20%
Underperform Votes
85
36.80%
Legend BiotechOutperform Votes
80
70.80%
Underperform Votes
33
29.20%

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Eidos Therapeutics$26.69M177.99-$37.83M-$1.03-118.65
Legend Biotech$285.14M25.66-$518.25M-$0.95-42.25

31.4% of Eidos Therapeutics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.9% of Legend Biotech shares are owned by institutional investors. 70.1% of Eidos Therapeutics shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Legend Biotech shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Legend Biotech has a consensus price target of $81.46, indicating a potential upside of 102.94%. Given Legend Biotech's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Legend Biotech is more favorable than Eidos Therapeutics.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Eidos Therapeutics
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Legend Biotech
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
13 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Eidos Therapeutics has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Legend Biotech's net margin of -66.92%. Legend Biotech's return on equity of -29.69% beat Eidos Therapeutics' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Eidos TherapeuticsN/A -65.21% -53.04%
Legend Biotech -66.92%-29.69%-19.45%

Summary

Legend Biotech beats Eidos Therapeutics on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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LEGN vs. The Competition

MetricLegend BiotechPharmaceutical IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$7.00B$6.48B$5.06B$8.89B
Dividend YieldN/A8.11%4.97%4.06%
P/E Ratio-42.254.8389.0213.30
Price / Sales25.66372.991,207.2881.01
Price / CashN/A52.2739.1736.03
Price / Book6.567.876.085.74
Net Income-$518.25M$153.61M$119.07M$225.93M
7 Day Performance0.63%-2.00%-1.84%-1.32%
1 Month Performance-7.62%-7.47%-3.65%0.60%
1 Year Performance-29.89%31.80%31.62%26.23%

Legend Biotech Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LEGN
Legend Biotech
1.7671 of 5 stars
$39.82
-0.8%
$81.46
+104.6%
-33.7%$7.26B$285.14M-41.921,800Analyst Revision
EIDX
Eidos Therapeutics
N/A$122.21
flat
N/AN/A$4.75B$26.69M-118.6570
PRNB
Principia Biopharma
N/A$100.05
flat
N/AN/A$3.32B$35.16M-47.8765
AUTL
Autolus Therapeutics
3.4801 of 5 stars
$2.75
-1.8%
$10.15
+269.1%
-36.5%$731.75M$1.70M0.00330Analyst Upgrade
BLUE
bluebird bio
2.4704 of 5 stars
$0.30
-2.3%
$3.03
+921.6%
-92.1%$57.57M$29.50M-0.16323Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
BNTX
BioNTech
3.4725 of 5 stars
$103.69
+1.5%
$138.79
+33.8%
+3.3%$24.86B$4.13B0.006,133Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
TEVA
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
2.7027 of 5 stars
$17.11
+0.5%
$19.67
+14.9%
+80.0%$19.38B$15.85B-20.0337,851
BGNE
BeiGene
3.1891 of 5 stars
$195.49
+0.6%
$247.07
+26.4%
+3.4%$19.04B$2.46B-23.5810,600Analyst Downgrade
Gap Up
VTRS
Viatris
1.3514 of 5 stars
$13.16
+0.2%
$13.33
+1.3%
+38.6%$15.71B$15.43B0.0038,000
MRNA
Moderna
4.6292 of 5 stars
$36.50
-1.2%
$84.00
+130.1%
-53.2%$14.05B$6.85B-6.355,600Analyst Upgrade
Analyst Revision
SMMT
Summit Therapeutics
1.8779 of 5 stars
$18.61
-0.1%
$34.75
+86.7%
+835.7%$13.72B$700,000.00-67.00105Analyst Forecast

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This page (NASDAQ:LEGN) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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