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TAK vs. SNY, GSK, ARGX, ONC, BNTX, TEVA, SMMT, ITCI, GMAB, and RDY

Should you be buying Takeda Pharmaceutical stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Takeda Pharmaceutical include Sanofi (SNY), GSK (GSK), argenx (ARGX), Beigene (ONC), BioNTech (BNTX), Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (TEVA), Summit Therapeutics (SMMT), Intra-Cellular Therapies (ITCI), Genmab A/S (GMAB), and Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (RDY). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.

Takeda Pharmaceutical vs.

Sanofi (NASDAQ:SNY) and Takeda Pharmaceutical (NYSE:TAK) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, dividends, community ranking, risk, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Sanofi has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Takeda Pharmaceutical has a beta of 0.39, suggesting that its share price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Takeda Pharmaceutical received 51 more outperform votes than Sanofi when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.24% of users gave Sanofi an outperform vote while only 57.06% of users gave Takeda Pharmaceutical an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
SanofiOutperform Votes
50
60.24%
Underperform Votes
33
39.76%
Takeda PharmaceuticalOutperform Votes
101
57.06%
Underperform Votes
76
42.94%

Sanofi pays an annual dividend of $1.47 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Takeda Pharmaceutical pays an annual dividend of $0.53 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Sanofi pays out 59.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Takeda Pharmaceutical pays out 132.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Sanofi currently has a consensus target price of $62.50, suggesting a potential upside of 14.43%. Given Sanofi's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Sanofi is more favorable than Takeda Pharmaceutical.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Sanofi
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Takeda Pharmaceutical
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Sanofi has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Takeda Pharmaceutical. Sanofi is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Takeda Pharmaceutical, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Sanofi$44.29B3.13$6.02B$2.4921.94
Takeda Pharmaceutical$4.58T0.01$994.06M$0.4037.96

Sanofi has a net margin of 12.77% compared to Takeda Pharmaceutical's net margin of 4.53%. Sanofi's return on equity of 25.61% beat Takeda Pharmaceutical's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Sanofi12.77% 25.61% 14.72%
Takeda Pharmaceutical 4.53%9.39%4.53%

In the previous week, Sanofi had 23 more articles in the media than Takeda Pharmaceutical. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Sanofi and 6 mentions for Takeda Pharmaceutical. Sanofi's average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Takeda Pharmaceutical's score of 0.55 indicating that Sanofi is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Sanofi
16 Very Positive mention(s)
5 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Takeda Pharmaceutical
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

14.0% of Sanofi shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.2% of Takeda Pharmaceutical shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Sanofi shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Takeda Pharmaceutical shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Sanofi beats Takeda Pharmaceutical on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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TAK vs. The Competition

MetricTakeda PharmaceuticalPharmaceutical IndustryMedical SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$47.66B$6.72B$5.53B$18.93B
Dividend Yield3.59%2.79%4.86%3.79%
P/E Ratio37.966.9923.2231.59
Price / Sales0.01198.60363.0825.45
Price / Cash4.2765.6738.1617.54
Price / Book0.995.926.494.36
Net Income$994.06M$142.37M$3.21B$1.02B
7 Day Performance0.86%-7.24%-4.91%-3.87%
1 Month Performance2.15%-10.45%-0.08%-4.82%
1 Year Performance12.61%-14.58%6.40%0.29%

Takeda Pharmaceutical Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
TAK
Takeda Pharmaceutical
2.3685 of 5 stars
$14.74
-3.0%
N/A+12.2%$46.89B$4.58T36.8447,300Analyst Upgrade
News Coverage
High Trading Volume
SNY
Sanofi
3.5124 of 5 stars
$55.46
-0.6%
$62.50
+12.7%
+13.9%$140.75B$44.29B22.2791,600Analyst Revision
Positive News
GSK
GSK
2.995 of 5 stars
$38.81
+0.2%
$43.25
+11.4%
-6.1%$80.33B$31.38B24.4190,100Gap Down
ARGX
argenx
2.9437 of 5 stars
$591.87
+0.5%
$687.00
+16.1%
+48.1%$35.96B$2.19B-672.58650Positive News
Gap Down
ONC
Beigene
2.0481 of 5 stars
$272.17
+1.8%
$310.00
+13.9%
N/A$26.85B$3.81B-33.0310,600Insider Trade
News Coverage
Gap Up
BNTX
BioNTech
2.6669 of 5 stars
$91.06
-4.1%
$143.73
+57.8%
+1.4%$21.85B$2.75B-43.363,080Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
TEVA
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
2.2156 of 5 stars
$15.39
+2.0%
$23.43
+52.3%
+5.1%$17.44B$16.54B-10.6136,800Analyst Upgrade
Short Interest ↑
Analyst Revision
Gap Down
SMMT
Summit Therapeutics
2.6374 of 5 stars
$19.29
-5.1%
$35.44
+83.7%
+378.7%$14.23B$700,000.00-68.89110Gap Down
ITCI
Intra-Cellular Therapies
3.4662 of 5 stars
$131.92
+0.1%
$106.08
-19.6%
N/A$14.05B$680.50M-151.63560Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Positive News
GMAB
Genmab A/S
3.879 of 5 stars
$19.58
-1.6%
$41.33
+111.1%
-34.3%$12.96B$21.53B11.251,660Analyst Downgrade
Gap Down
RDY
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories
3.249 of 5 stars
$13.19
-0.1%
$17.00
+28.9%
-9.5%$11.01B$311.31B21.0024,800Positive News
Gap Down
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This page (NYSE:TAK) was last updated on 4/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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