VTRS vs. TAK, ALNY, TEVA, GMAB, RPRX, BGNE, BMRN, UTHR, RDY, and SRPT
Should you be buying Viatris stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Viatris include Takeda Pharmaceutical (TAK), Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (ALNY), Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (TEVA), Genmab A/S (GMAB), Royalty Pharma (RPRX), BeiGene (BGNE), BioMarin Pharmaceutical (BMRN), United Therapeutics (UTHR), Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (RDY), and Sarepta Therapeutics (SRPT). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Takeda Pharmaceutical (NYSE:TAK) and Viatris (NASDAQ:VTRS) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Takeda Pharmaceutical pays an annual dividend of $0.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Viatris pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Takeda Pharmaceutical pays out 47.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Viatris pays out -800.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Viatris is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Takeda Pharmaceutical has higher revenue and earnings than Viatris. Viatris is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Takeda Pharmaceutical, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Takeda Pharmaceutical received 79 more outperform votes than Viatris when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.82% of users gave Takeda Pharmaceutical an outperform vote while only 35.59% of users gave Viatris an outperform vote.
9.2% of Takeda Pharmaceutical shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.9% of Viatris shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Takeda Pharmaceutical shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Viatris shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Takeda Pharmaceutical has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Viatris has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Takeda Pharmaceutical has a net margin of 6.18% compared to Takeda Pharmaceutical's net margin of -0.37%. Takeda Pharmaceutical's return on equity of 16.63% beat Viatris' return on equity.
Takeda Pharmaceutical currently has a consensus target price of $14.00, indicating a potential upside of 4.87%. Viatris has a consensus target price of $11.00, indicating a potential upside of 3.77%. Given Viatris' higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Takeda Pharmaceutical is more favorable than Viatris.
In the previous week, Takeda Pharmaceutical and Takeda Pharmaceutical both had 5 articles in the media. Takeda Pharmaceutical's average media sentiment score of 0.26 beat Viatris' score of 0.18 indicating that Viatris is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Takeda Pharmaceutical beats Viatris on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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