RGEN vs. QGEN, XLRN, CRSP, TECH, BIIB, ALNY, BMRN, NBIX, INCY, and UTHR
Should you be buying Repligen stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Repligen include Qiagen (QGEN), Acceleron Pharma (XLRN), CRISPR Therapeutics (CRSP), Bio-Techne (TECH), Biogen (BIIB), Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (ALNY), BioMarin Pharmaceutical (BMRN), Neurocrine Biosciences (NBIX), Incyte (INCY), and United Therapeutics (UTHR). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Repligen (NASDAQ:RGEN) and Qiagen (NYSE:QGEN) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, earnings, community ranking, valuation and media sentiment.
97.6% of Repligen shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.0% of Qiagen shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Repligen shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.0% of Qiagen shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Repligen has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Qiagen has a beta of 0.42, meaning that its stock price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Repligen presently has a consensus price target of $197.75, suggesting a potential upside of 32.64%. Qiagen has a consensus price target of $50.95, suggesting a potential upside of 17.77%. Given Repligen's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Repligen is more favorable than Qiagen.
In the previous week, Repligen had 3 more articles in the media than Qiagen. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Repligen and 5 mentions for Qiagen. Repligen's average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat Qiagen's score of 0.97 indicating that Repligen is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Qiagen has higher revenue and earnings than Repligen. Qiagen is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Repligen, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Qiagen has a net margin of 17.38% compared to Repligen's net margin of 2.44%. Qiagen's return on equity of 12.59% beat Repligen's return on equity.
Repligen received 156 more outperform votes than Qiagen when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.08% of users gave Repligen an outperform vote while only 60.79% of users gave Qiagen an outperform vote.
Summary
Repligen beats Qiagen on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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