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

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

Neurocrine Biosciences vs.

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

Neurocrine Biosciences has a net margin of 14.49% compared to Alnylam Pharmaceuticals' net margin of -12.37%. Neurocrine Biosciences' return on equity of 13.38% beat Alnylam Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals-12.37% N/A -6.83%
Neurocrine Biosciences 14.49%13.38%9.73%

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals currently has a consensus target price of $299.48, suggesting a potential upside of 17.54%. Neurocrine Biosciences has a consensus target price of $166.90, suggesting a potential upside of 37.29%. Given Neurocrine Biosciences' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Neurocrine Biosciences is more favorable than Alnylam Pharmaceuticals.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
1 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
19 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.72
Neurocrine Biosciences
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
17 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.83

In the previous week, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals had 5 more articles in the media than Neurocrine Biosciences. MarketBeat recorded 37 mentions for Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and 32 mentions for Neurocrine Biosciences. Neurocrine Biosciences' average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat Alnylam Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.52 indicating that Neurocrine Biosciences is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
19 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
6 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Neurocrine Biosciences
13 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals$2.25B14.67-$278.16M-$2.17-117.41
Neurocrine Biosciences$2.36B5.15$341.30M$3.2936.95

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals received 116 more outperform votes than Neurocrine Biosciences when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 77.45% of users gave Neurocrine Biosciences an outperform vote while only 76.20% of users gave Alnylam Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Alnylam PharmaceuticalsOutperform Votes
1143
76.20%
Underperform Votes
357
23.80%
Neurocrine BiosciencesOutperform Votes
1027
77.45%
Underperform Votes
299
22.55%

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.35, meaning that its stock price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Neurocrine Biosciences has a beta of 0.33, meaning that its stock price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500.

93.0% of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.6% of Neurocrine Biosciences shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of Neurocrine Biosciences shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Neurocrine Biosciences beats Alnylam Pharmaceuticals on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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NBIX vs. The Competition

MetricNeurocrine BiosciencesBiological Products IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$11.39B$3.09B$5.84B$9.20B
Dividend YieldN/A1.57%4.78%3.85%
P/E Ratio35.2910.0116.3214.14
Price / Sales5.15342.88461.0479.70
Price / Cash33.81183.5344.0437.47
Price / Book4.683.637.794.78
Net Income$341.30M-$71.72M$3.18B$245.88M
7 Day Performance5.70%-0.24%-0.52%-0.90%
1 Month Performance-16.66%2.30%1.80%-0.52%
1 Year Performance-6.95%-9.30%18.90%16.50%

Neurocrine Biosciences Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NBIX
Neurocrine Biosciences
4.9783 of 5 stars
$120.05
+3.4%
$166.90
+39.0%
-12.5%$11.96B$2.36B36.471,800Analyst Downgrade
Analyst Revision
Gap Up
ALNY
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
4.5539 of 5 stars
$256.45
-3.2%
$299.43
+16.8%
+68.7%$33.08B$1.83B-97.882,100Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
BIIB
Biogen
4.7769 of 5 stars
$137.33
-0.8%
$211.96
+54.3%
-37.5%$20.01B$9.84B12.417,570Analyst Forecast
UTHR
United Therapeutics
4.4129 of 5 stars
$370.58
+0.0%
$382.08
+3.1%
+71.5%$16.55B$2.33B16.271,168Insider Trade
INCY
Incyte
4.5814 of 5 stars
$70.42
+0.6%
$75.59
+7.3%
+21.4%$13.57B$3.70B503.042,524
BMRN
BioMarin Pharmaceutical
4.9364 of 5 stars
$64.85
+0.7%
$94.20
+45.3%
-22.5%$12.36B$2.42B38.833,401Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
EXEL
Exelixis
4.6803 of 5 stars
$35.00
+1.5%
$37.24
+6.4%
+70.1%$10.00B$1.83B22.441,310Analyst Upgrade
Insider Trade
Gap Up
EXAS
Exact Sciences
4.671 of 5 stars
$49.31
-2.5%
$72.76
+47.6%
-21.1%$9.13B$2.50B-42.146,600Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
RGEN
Repligen
4.3262 of 5 stars
$146.92
+0.5%
$182.91
+24.5%
-18.6%$8.23B$638.76M-397.071,783Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
HALO
Halozyme Therapeutics
4.5001 of 5 stars
$58.29
-0.5%
$60.89
+4.5%
+59.6%$7.42B$829.25M19.30390Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
MDGL
Madrigal Pharmaceuticals
3.3531 of 5 stars
$337.20
-4.1%
$351.67
+4.3%
+52.8%$7.35BN/A-13.4490

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