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Xenon Pharmaceuticals (XENE) Competitors

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$33.44 +2.04 (+6.50%)
As of 04/14/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

XENE vs. VTRS, QGEN, ASND, ROIV, LNTH, TGTX, RVMD, BBIO, LEGN, and BPMC

Should you be buying Xenon Pharmaceuticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Xenon Pharmaceuticals include Viatris (VTRS), Qiagen (QGEN), Ascendis Pharma A/S (ASND), Roivant Sciences (ROIV), Lantheus (LNTH), TG Therapeutics (TGTX), Revolution Medicines (RVMD), BridgeBio Pharma (BBIO), Legend Biotech (LEGN), and Blueprint Medicines (BPMC). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Xenon Pharmaceuticals vs.

Viatris (NASDAQ:VTRS) and Xenon Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:XENE) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and profitability.

Viatris presently has a consensus target price of $10.50, suggesting a potential upside of 37.61%. Xenon Pharmaceuticals has a consensus target price of $57.38, suggesting a potential upside of 71.58%. Given Xenon Pharmaceuticals' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Xenon Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than Viatris.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Viatris
2 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.75
Xenon Pharmaceuticals
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
9 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Viatris$14.74B0.62$54.70M-$0.53-14.40
Xenon Pharmaceuticals$9.43M271.43-$182.39M-$3.02-11.07

Xenon Pharmaceuticals has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Viatris' net margin of -5.87%. Viatris' return on equity of 16.46% beat Xenon Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Viatris-5.87% 16.46% 7.09%
Xenon Pharmaceuticals N/A -24.69%-23.68%

79.9% of Viatris shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.4% of Xenon Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Viatris shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.5% of Xenon Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Viatris had 48 more articles in the media than Xenon Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 57 mentions for Viatris and 9 mentions for Xenon Pharmaceuticals. Xenon Pharmaceuticals' average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Viatris' score of 0.00 indicating that Xenon Pharmaceuticals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Viatris
2 Very Positive mention(s)
7 Positive mention(s)
39 Neutral mention(s)
3 Negative mention(s)
5 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Xenon Pharmaceuticals
6 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Xenon Pharmaceuticals received 400 more outperform votes than Viatris when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.92% of users gave Xenon Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 34.85% of users gave Viatris an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
ViatrisOutperform Votes
23
34.85%
Underperform Votes
43
65.15%
Xenon PharmaceuticalsOutperform Votes
423
69.92%
Underperform Votes
182
30.08%

Viatris has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Xenon Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Xenon Pharmaceuticals beats Viatris on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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XENE vs. The Competition

MetricXenon PharmaceuticalsPharmaceutical IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$2.56B$6.35B$5.35B$7.58B
Dividend YieldN/A3.23%5.11%4.33%
P/E Ratio-11.866.7721.6817.78
Price / Sales271.43228.59376.3394.51
Price / CashN/A65.6738.1534.64
Price / Book2.365.886.443.99
Net Income-$182.39M$141.32M$3.20B$247.24M
7 Day Performance18.46%8.48%9.01%8.29%
1 Month Performance-5.32%-12.84%-6.09%-5.37%
1 Year Performance-19.05%-12.40%10.72%-0.24%

Xenon Pharmaceuticals Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
XENE
Xenon Pharmaceuticals
1.8773 of 5 stars
$33.44
+6.5%
$57.38
+71.6%
-19.0%$2.56B$9.43M-11.86210Positive News
VTRS
Viatris
2.9578 of 5 stars
$7.61
-0.1%
$10.50
+38.0%
-32.7%$9.08B$14.74B-10.2837,000High Trading Volume
QGEN
Qiagen
3.4869 of 5 stars
$40.33
+5.4%
$47.71
+18.3%
+8.3%$8.96B$1.98B112.296,030High Trading Volume
ASND
Ascendis Pharma A/S
2.3006 of 5 stars
$140.14
-1.8%
$204.64
+46.0%
+6.5%$8.50B$363.64M-19.741,017News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Down
ROIV
Roivant Sciences
2.6189 of 5 stars
$9.26
-2.1%
$17.50
+89.0%
-6.9%$6.61B$122.59M-61.73860Positive News
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
LNTH
Lantheus
4.4105 of 5 stars
$95.45
+5.0%
$129.43
+35.6%
+68.0%$6.54B$1.53B15.88700Positive News
TGTX
TG Therapeutics
3.3134 of 5 stars
$37.25
-0.3%
$40.67
+9.2%
+171.3%$5.85B$329.00M-372.46290Positive News
RVMD
Revolution Medicines
3.812 of 5 stars
$31.40
+0.3%
$65.23
+107.7%
+1.1%$5.84B$742,000.00-8.75250Positive News
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
BBIO
BridgeBio Pharma
4.5785 of 5 stars
$30.67
-2.2%
$52.64
+71.6%
+29.9%$5.83B$221.90M-10.76400Positive News
LEGN
Legend Biotech
2.405 of 5 stars
$30.25
-5.5%
$79.00
+161.2%
-39.3%$5.56B$627.24M-31.841,070Positive News
Gap Up
BPMC
Blueprint Medicines
2.6147 of 5 stars
$80.20
-1.8%
$124.95
+55.8%
-5.4%$5.13B$508.82M-74.26640Positive News
High Trading Volume
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This page (NASDAQ:XENE) was last updated on 4/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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