INCY vs. MEDP, CRL, EXEL, NRC, ICLR, IQV, FMS, NTRA, RVTY, and TECH
Should you be buying Incyte stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Incyte include Medpace (MEDP), Charles River Laboratories International (CRL), Exelixis (EXEL), National Research (NRC), ICON Public (ICLR), IQVIA (IQV), Fresenius Medical Care (FMS), Natera (NTRA), Revvity (RVTY), and Bio-Techne (TECH).
Incyte (NASDAQ:INCY) and Medpace (NASDAQ:MEDP) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends and risk.
Incyte presently has a consensus price target of $74.93, suggesting a potential upside of 31.03%. Medpace has a consensus price target of $443.00, suggesting a potential upside of 11.52%. Given Incyte's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Incyte is more favorable than Medpace.
97.0% of Incyte shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.0% of Medpace shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.5% of Incyte shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.3% of Medpace shares are owned by company 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.
Incyte received 873 more outperform votes than Medpace when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.63% of users gave Incyte an outperform vote while only 64.00% of users gave Medpace an outperform vote.
Incyte has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Medpace has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Incyte has higher revenue and earnings than Medpace. Incyte is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Medpace, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Incyte has a net margin of 19.78% compared to Medpace's net margin of 15.92%. Medpace's return on equity of 59.74% beat Incyte's return on equity.
In the previous week, Medpace had 5 more articles in the media than Incyte. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Medpace and 17 mentions for Incyte. Medpace's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Incyte's score of 0.47 indicating that Medpace is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Medpace beats Incyte on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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