ICLR vs. INCY, MEDP, CRL, EXAS, IQV, WST, PHG, ZBH, CAH, and STE
Should you be buying ICON Public stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ICON Public include Incyte (INCY), Medpace (MEDP), Charles River Laboratories International (CRL), Exact Sciences (EXAS), IQVIA (IQV), West Pharmaceutical Services (WST), Koninklijke Philips (PHG), Zimmer Biomet (ZBH), Cardinal Health (CAH), and STERIS (STE). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
ICON Public (NASDAQ:ICLR) and Incyte (NASDAQ:INCY) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability and analyst recommendations.
ICON Public has higher revenue and earnings than Incyte. Incyte is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ICON Public, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Incyte had 24 more articles in the media than ICON Public. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Incyte and 0 mentions for ICON Public. Incyte's average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat ICON Public's score of 0.00 indicating that Incyte is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Incyte has a net margin of 19.78% compared to ICON Public's net margin of 8.30%. Incyte's return on equity of 12.83% beat ICON Public's return on equity.
ICON Public presently has a consensus price target of $339.44, indicating a potential upside of 7.86%. Incyte has a consensus price target of $74.93, indicating a potential upside of 31.23%. Given Incyte's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Incyte is more favorable than ICON Public.
Incyte received 615 more outperform votes than ICON Public when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.63% of users gave Incyte an outperform vote while only 64.99% of users gave ICON Public an outperform vote.
95.6% of ICON Public shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.0% of Incyte shares are owned by institutional investors. 44.0% of ICON Public shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 17.5% of Incyte shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
ICON Public has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Incyte has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Incyte beats ICON Public on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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