CYTK vs. JAZZ, ELAN, VKTX, ITCI, IONS, CERE, APLS, BPMC, ASND, and LEGN
Should you be buying Cytokinetics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cytokinetics include Jazz Pharmaceuticals (JAZZ), Elanco Animal Health (ELAN), Viking Therapeutics (VKTX), Intra-Cellular Therapies (ITCI), Ionis Pharmaceuticals (IONS), Cerevel Therapeutics (CERE), Apellis Pharmaceuticals (APLS), Blueprint Medicines (BPMC), Ascendis Pharma A/S (ASND), and Legend Biotech (LEGN). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Cytokinetics (NASDAQ:CYTK) and Jazz Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:JAZZ) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, risk and earnings.
Jazz Pharmaceuticals received 323 more outperform votes than Cytokinetics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.49% of users gave Jazz Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 79.14% of users gave Cytokinetics an outperform vote.
Jazz Pharmaceuticals has a net margin of 10.82% compared to Cytokinetics' net margin of -6,988.63%. Jazz Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of 31.27% beat Cytokinetics' return on equity.
Cytokinetics has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Jazz Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.59, suggesting that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Cytokinetics presently has a consensus target price of $79.33, suggesting a potential upside of 21.42%. Jazz Pharmaceuticals has a consensus target price of $195.08, suggesting a potential upside of 78.22%. Given Jazz Pharmaceuticals' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Jazz Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than Cytokinetics.
Jazz Pharmaceuticals has higher revenue and earnings than Cytokinetics. Cytokinetics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Jazz Pharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Cytokinetics had 2 more articles in the media than Jazz Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Cytokinetics and 10 mentions for Jazz Pharmaceuticals. Jazz Pharmaceuticals' average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Cytokinetics' score of 0.37 indicating that Jazz Pharmaceuticals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
89.1% of Jazz Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. 3.4% of Cytokinetics shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.4% of Jazz Pharmaceuticals shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Jazz Pharmaceuticals beats Cytokinetics on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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