OPK vs. INVA, IRWD, MNKD, LXRX, PCRX, DVAX, ADCT, VSTM, AVIR, and VNDA
Should you be buying OPKO Health stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of OPKO Health include Innoviva (INVA), Ironwood Pharmaceuticals (IRWD), MannKind (MNKD), Lexicon Pharmaceuticals (LXRX), Pacira BioSciences (PCRX), Dynavax Technologies (DVAX), ADC Therapeutics (ADCT), Verastem (VSTM), Atea Pharmaceuticals (AVIR), and Vanda Pharmaceuticals (VNDA). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Innoviva (NASDAQ:INVA) and OPKO Health (NASDAQ:OPK) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, risk and analyst recommendations.
OPKO Health received 203 more outperform votes than Innoviva when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.70% of users gave OPKO Health an outperform vote while only 57.28% of users gave Innoviva an outperform vote.
99.1% of Innoviva shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.6% of OPKO Health shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Innoviva shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 47.3% of OPKO Health shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Innoviva has a net margin of 58.21% compared to Innoviva's net margin of -31.44%. OPKO Health's return on equity of 28.94% beat Innoviva's return on equity.
Innoviva has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OPKO Health has a beta of 1.81, indicating that its share price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Innoviva has higher earnings, but lower revenue than OPKO Health. OPKO Health is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Innoviva, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, OPKO Health had 5 more articles in the media than Innoviva. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for OPKO Health and 5 mentions for Innoviva. OPKO Health's average media sentiment score of 1.75 beat Innoviva's score of 1.29 indicating that Innoviva is being referred to more favorably in the media.
OPKO Health has a consensus target price of $3.17, indicating a potential upside of 124.59%. Given Innoviva's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe OPKO Health is more favorable than Innoviva.
Summary
Innoviva beats OPKO Health on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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