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Medicis Pharmaceutical (MRX) Competitors

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MRX vs. BGC, SNEX, FRGE, TOP, GSIW, ICE, CME, NDAQ, TW, and LPLA

Should you be buying Medicis Pharmaceutical stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Medicis Pharmaceutical include BGC Group (BGC), StoneX Group (SNEX), Forge Global (FRGE), TOP Financial Group (TOP), Garden Stage (GSIW), Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), CME Group (CME), Nasdaq (NDAQ), Tradeweb Markets (TW), and LPL Financial (LPLA). These companies are all part of the "security & commodity brokers, dealers, exchanges & services" industry.

Medicis Pharmaceutical vs.

BGC Group (NASDAQ:BGC) and Medicis Pharmaceutical (NYSE:MRX) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.

BGC Group pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Medicis Pharmaceutical pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. BGC Group pays out 30.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

BGC Group has a net margin of 5.59% compared to Medicis Pharmaceutical's net margin of 0.00%. BGC Group's return on equity of 47.55% beat Medicis Pharmaceutical's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
BGC Group5.59% 47.55% 11.71%
Medicis Pharmaceutical N/A N/A N/A

In the previous week, BGC Group had 5 more articles in the media than Medicis Pharmaceutical. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for BGC Group and 0 mentions for Medicis Pharmaceutical. BGC Group's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Medicis Pharmaceutical's score of 0.00 indicating that BGC Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
BGC Group Positive
Medicis Pharmaceutical Neutral

Medicis Pharmaceutical has lower revenue, but higher earnings than BGC Group.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
BGC Group$2.21B2.02$126.99M$0.2635.46
Medicis Pharmaceutical$1.24B2.01$141.30MN/AN/A

BGC Group received 164 more outperform votes than Medicis Pharmaceutical when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.37% of users gave Medicis Pharmaceutical an outperform vote while only 59.81% of users gave BGC Group an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
BGC GroupOutperform Votes
323
59.81%
Underperform Votes
217
40.19%
Medicis PharmaceuticalOutperform Votes
159
67.37%
Underperform Votes
77
32.63%

52.1% of BGC Group shares are held by institutional investors. 26.3% of BGC Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of Medicis Pharmaceutical shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

BGC Group presently has a consensus price target of $16.00, suggesting a potential upside of 73.54%. Medicis Pharmaceutical has a consensus price target of $35.00, suggesting a potential downside of 1.59%. Given BGC Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe BGC Group is more favorable than Medicis Pharmaceutical.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
BGC Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Medicis Pharmaceutical
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.78

Summary

BGC Group beats Medicis Pharmaceutical on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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MRX vs. The Competition

MetricMedicis PharmaceuticalSecurity & commodity brokers IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$2.73B$28.96B$11.31B$19.48B
Dividend Yield1.44%1.47%5.40%3.76%
P/E RatioN/A18.9922.6433.08
Price / Sales2.017.0825.6026.21
Price / CashN/A21.1217.6117.55
Price / BookN/A4.722.704.56
Net Income$141.30M$1.00B$1.03B$1.02B

Medicis Pharmaceutical Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MRX
Medicis Pharmaceutical
0.6494 of 5 stars
$35.56
+9.3%
$35.00
-1.6%
N/A$2.73B$1.24B0.002,074Gap Up
BGC
BGC Group
3.5754 of 5 stars
$9.70
+3.7%
$16.00
+64.9%
+108.1%$4.68B$2.21B37.313,895
SNEX
StoneX Group
2.5888 of 5 stars
$79.15
+1.2%
N/A+65.6%$2.54B$108.25B9.463,600Short Interest ↑
High Trading Volume
FRGE
Forge Global
2.6714 of 5 stars
$0.62
+0.2%
$4.50
+625.8%
-68.8%$116.65M$78.66M-1.443Stock Split
TOP
TOP Financial Group
0.4483 of 5 stars
$1.28
+0.8%
N/A-55.5%$47.40M$2.73M0.0011Positive News
GSIW
Garden Stage
1.1217 of 5 stars
$0.48
+0.5%
N/A-92.3%$7.55M$1.31M0.0013Short Interest ↓
Positive News
Gap Up
ICE
Intercontinental Exchange
4.4752 of 5 stars
$175.27
+0.5%
$178.80
+2.0%
+25.0%$100.70B$11.76B36.6712,920Short Interest ↓
Analyst Revision
Positive News
CME
CME Group
4.0547 of 5 stars
$262.94
-0.2%
$238.93
-9.1%
+23.7%$94.75B$6.13B27.193,460Positive News
NDAQ
Nasdaq
4.7624 of 5 stars
$77.41
+2.5%
$86.88
+12.2%
+22.1%$44.52B$7.40B40.328,525Positive News
TW
Tradeweb Markets
3.7627 of 5 stars
$144.08
+1.2%
$138.50
-3.9%
+42.9%$34.03B$1.73B61.841,412Positive News
LPLA
LPL Financial
4.8885 of 5 stars
$341.74
+4.2%
$379.17
+11.0%
+25.7%$25.52B$12.39B24.346,900Positive News
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This page (NYSE:MRX) was last updated on 4/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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