ARGX vs. BNTX, NBIX, TECH, QGEN, RGEN, BIIB, PCVX, EXEL, RVMD, and IBRX
Should you be buying argenx stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of argenx include BioNTech (BNTX), Neurocrine Biosciences (NBIX), Bio-Techne (TECH), Qiagen (QGEN), Repligen (RGEN), Biogen (BIIB), Vaxcyte (PCVX), Exelixis (EXEL), Revolution Medicines (RVMD), and ImmunityBio (IBRX). These companies are all part of the "biological products, except diagnostic" industry.
BioNTech (NASDAQ:BNTX) and argenx (NASDAQ:ARGX) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, media sentiment, valuation, dividends and profitability.
argenx received 486 more outperform votes than BioNTech when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.86% of users gave argenx an outperform vote while only 42.38% of users gave BioNTech an outperform vote.
BioNTech currently has a consensus target price of $117.25, suggesting a potential upside of 26.10%. argenx has a consensus target price of $524.68, suggesting a potential upside of 39.32%. Given BioNTech's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe argenx is more favorable than BioNTech.
BioNTech has a beta of 0.25, meaning that its stock price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, argenx has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, argenx had 14 more articles in the media than BioNTech. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for argenx and 20 mentions for BioNTech. argenx's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat BioNTech's score of 0.36 indicating that BioNTech is being referred to more favorably in the media.
15.5% of BioNTech shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.3% of argenx shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.2% of BioNTech shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of argenx shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
BioNTech has a net margin of 4.01% compared to BioNTech's net margin of -22.58%. argenx's return on equity of 0.55% beat BioNTech's return on equity.
BioNTech has higher revenue and earnings than argenx. argenx is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BioNTech, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
argenx beats BioNTech on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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