ELAN vs. ALNY, TEVA, GMAB, RPRX, BGNE, BMRN, VTRS, UTHR, SRPT, and RDY
Should you be buying Elanco Animal Health stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Elanco Animal Health include Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (ALNY), Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (TEVA), Genmab A/S (GMAB), Royalty Pharma (RPRX), BeiGene (BGNE), BioMarin Pharmaceutical (BMRN), Viatris (VTRS), United Therapeutics (UTHR), Sarepta Therapeutics (SRPT), and Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (RDY). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ALNY) and Elanco Animal Health (NYSE:ELAN) are both medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals has a net margin of -16.58% compared to Alnylam Pharmaceuticals' net margin of -29.83%. Alnylam Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of 5.98% beat Elanco Animal Health's return on equity.
93.0% of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.5% of Elanco Animal Health shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Elanco Animal Health shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals currently has a consensus target price of $216.19, indicating a potential upside of 45.65%. Elanco Animal Health has a consensus target price of $18.29, indicating a potential upside of 3.43%. Given Elanco Animal Health's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Alnylam Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than Elanco Animal Health.
In the previous week, Elanco Animal Health had 7 more articles in the media than Alnylam Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Elanco Animal Health and 9 mentions for Alnylam Pharmaceuticals. Alnylam Pharmaceuticals' average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Elanco Animal Health's score of 0.75 indicating that Elanco Animal Health is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Elanco Animal Health. Alnylam Pharmaceuticals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Elanco Animal Health, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.41, meaning that its stock price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Elanco Animal Health has a beta of 1.34, meaning that its stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals received 959 more outperform votes than Elanco Animal Health when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.17% of users gave Alnylam Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 54.13% of users gave Elanco Animal Health an outperform vote.
Summary
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and Elanco Animal Health tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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