RYTM vs. ARVN, MORF, AKRO, PLRX, ANNX, ROIV, ELAN, ASND, LEGN, and CERE
Should you be buying Rhythm Pharmaceuticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rhythm Pharmaceuticals include Arvinas (ARVN), Morphic (MORF), Akero Therapeutics (AKRO), Pliant Therapeutics (PLRX), Annexon (ANNX), Roivant Sciences (ROIV), Elanco Animal Health (ELAN), Ascendis Pharma A/S (ASND), Legend Biotech (LEGN), and Cerevel Therapeutics (CERE). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Arvinas (NASDAQ:ARVN) and Rhythm Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:RYTM) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Arvinas has a beta of 1.95, suggesting that its stock price is 95% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rhythm Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 1.94, suggesting that its stock price is 94% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Arvinas has a net margin of -185.09% compared to Arvinas' net margin of -297.91%. Rhythm Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of -64.79% beat Arvinas' return on equity.
Rhythm Pharmaceuticals received 104 more outperform votes than Arvinas when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.71% of users gave Rhythm Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 65.40% of users gave Arvinas an outperform vote.
Arvinas currently has a consensus price target of $61.13, indicating a potential upside of 73.43%. Rhythm Pharmaceuticals has a consensus price target of $54.33, indicating a potential upside of 50.05%. Given Rhythm Pharmaceuticals' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Arvinas is more favorable than Rhythm Pharmaceuticals.
In the previous week, Arvinas had 2 more articles in the media than Rhythm Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Arvinas and 8 mentions for Rhythm Pharmaceuticals. Rhythm Pharmaceuticals' average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Arvinas' score of 0.60 indicating that Arvinas is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Rhythm Pharmaceuticals has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Arvinas. Rhythm Pharmaceuticals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Arvinas, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
95.2% of Arvinas shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.2% of Arvinas shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.6% of Rhythm Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Arvinas beats Rhythm Pharmaceuticals on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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