HIK vs. HCM, INDV, AMYT, BMK, APH, AGY, BXP, ANCR, EAH, and CEL
Should you be buying Hikma Pharmaceuticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hikma Pharmaceuticals include HUTCHMED (HCM), Indivior (INDV), Amryt Pharma (AMYT), Benchmark (BMK), Alliance Pharma (APH), Allergy Therapeutics (AGY), Beximco Pharmaceuticals (BXP), Animalcare Group (ANCR), ECO Animal Health Group (EAH), and Celadon Pharmaceuticals (CEL). These companies are all part of the "drug manufacturers - specialty & generic" industry.
Hikma Pharmaceuticals (LON:HIK) and HUTCHMED (LON:HCM) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and community ranking.
HUTCHMED has a net margin of 12.03% compared to Hikma Pharmaceuticals' net margin of 6.61%. HUTCHMED's return on equity of 14.65% beat Hikma Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.
Hikma Pharmaceuticals has higher revenue and earnings than HUTCHMED. Hikma Pharmaceuticals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HUTCHMED, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
37.6% of Hikma Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.4% of HUTCHMED shares are held by institutional investors. 30.6% of Hikma Pharmaceuticals shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 42.9% of HUTCHMED shares are held 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.
Hikma Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.44, indicating that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HUTCHMED has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Hikma Pharmaceuticals had 1 more articles in the media than HUTCHMED. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Hikma Pharmaceuticals and 0 mentions for HUTCHMED. Hikma Pharmaceuticals' average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat HUTCHMED's score of 0.00 indicating that Hikma Pharmaceuticals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Hikma Pharmaceuticals currently has a consensus price target of GBX 2,050, indicating a potential upside of 6.22%. Given Hikma Pharmaceuticals' higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Hikma Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than HUTCHMED.
Hikma Pharmaceuticals received 602 more outperform votes than HUTCHMED when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 78.40% of users gave HUTCHMED an outperform vote while only 70.56% of users gave Hikma Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote.
Summary
Hikma Pharmaceuticals beats HUTCHMED on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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