TECH vs. NBIX, QGEN, RGEN, CRSP, DNLI, A, MTD, WAT, ILMN, and CRL
Should you be buying Bio-Techne stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bio-Techne include Neurocrine Biosciences (NBIX), Qiagen (QGEN), Repligen (RGEN), CRISPR Therapeutics (CRSP), Denali Therapeutics (DNLI), Agilent Technologies (A), Mettler-Toledo International (MTD), Waters (WAT), Illumina (ILMN), and Charles River Laboratories International (CRL).
Bio-Techne (NASDAQ:TECH) and Neurocrine Biosciences (NASDAQ:NBIX) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
Bio-Techne currently has a consensus price target of $81.00, indicating a potential upside of 4.94%. Neurocrine Biosciences has a consensus price target of $150.85, indicating a potential upside of 11.40%. Given Neurocrine Biosciences' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Neurocrine Biosciences is more favorable than Bio-Techne.
99.0% of Bio-Techne shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.6% of Neurocrine Biosciences shares are held by institutional investors. 4.5% of Bio-Techne shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of Neurocrine Biosciences shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Neurocrine Biosciences has a net margin of 18.65% compared to Bio-Techne's net margin of 17.59%. Neurocrine Biosciences' return on equity of 17.45% beat Bio-Techne's return on equity.
Bio-Techne has a beta of 1.23, suggesting that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Neurocrine Biosciences has a beta of 0.28, suggesting that its stock price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Bio-Techne has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Neurocrine Biosciences. Neurocrine Biosciences is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bio-Techne, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Neurocrine Biosciences had 12 more articles in the media than Bio-Techne. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Neurocrine Biosciences and 11 mentions for Bio-Techne. Bio-Techne's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Neurocrine Biosciences' score of 0.58 indicating that Bio-Techne is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Neurocrine Biosciences received 597 more outperform votes than Bio-Techne when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.62% of users gave Neurocrine Biosciences an outperform vote while only 62.38% of users gave Bio-Techne an outperform vote.
Summary
Neurocrine Biosciences beats Bio-Techne on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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