ELAN vs. ALNY, TEVA, GMAB, RPRX, BGNE, BMRN, VTRS, UTHR, SRPT, and RDY
Should you be buying Elanco Animal Health stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Elanco Animal Health include Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (ALNY), Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (TEVA), Genmab A/S (GMAB), Royalty Pharma (RPRX), BeiGene (BGNE), BioMarin Pharmaceutical (BMRN), Viatris (VTRS), United Therapeutics (UTHR), Sarepta Therapeutics (SRPT), and Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (RDY). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Elanco Animal Health (NYSE:ELAN) and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ALNY) are both medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk and dividends.
97.5% of Elanco Animal Health shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.0% of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Elanco Animal Health shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Elanco Animal Health has a beta of 1.34, meaning that its share price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.41, meaning that its share price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals has a net margin of -16.58% compared to Elanco Animal Health's net margin of -29.83%. Elanco Animal Health's return on equity of 5.98% beat Alnylam Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Elanco Animal Health. Alnylam Pharmaceuticals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Elanco Animal Health, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Elanco Animal Health currently has a consensus target price of $18.29, suggesting a potential upside of 3.37%. Alnylam Pharmaceuticals has a consensus target price of $216.19, suggesting a potential upside of 45.65%. Given Alnylam Pharmaceuticals' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Alnylam Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than Elanco Animal Health.
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals received 959 more outperform votes than Elanco Animal Health when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.17% of users gave Alnylam Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 54.13% of users gave Elanco Animal Health an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Elanco Animal Health had 7 more articles in the media than Alnylam Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Elanco Animal Health and 8 mentions for Alnylam Pharmaceuticals. Elanco Animal Health's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Alnylam Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.91 indicating that Elanco Animal Health is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Elanco Animal Health and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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