OPK vs. INVA, MNKD, LGND, PCRX, IRWD, LXRX, ADCT, AVIR, XOMA, and VNDA
Should you be buying OPKO Health stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of OPKO Health include Innoviva (INVA), MannKind (MNKD), Ligand Pharmaceuticals (LGND), Pacira BioSciences (PCRX), Ironwood Pharmaceuticals (IRWD), Lexicon Pharmaceuticals (LXRX), ADC Therapeutics (ADCT), Atea Pharmaceuticals (AVIR), XOMA (XOMA), and Vanda Pharmaceuticals (VNDA). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
OPKO Health (NASDAQ:OPK) and Innoviva (NASDAQ:INVA) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, community ranking, media sentiment and profitability.
OPKO Health has a beta of 1.82, meaning that its share price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Innoviva has a beta of 0.57, meaning that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Innoviva has lower revenue, but higher earnings than OPKO Health. OPKO Health is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Innoviva, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Innoviva has a net margin of 57.89% compared to OPKO Health's net margin of -21.76%. Innoviva's return on equity of 30.37% beat OPKO Health's return on equity.
64.6% of OPKO Health shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.1% of Innoviva shares are owned by institutional investors. 47.3% of OPKO Health shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Innoviva shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
OPKO Health received 202 more outperform votes than Innoviva when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.83% of users gave OPKO Health an outperform vote while only 57.28% of users gave Innoviva an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Innoviva had 1 more articles in the media than OPKO Health. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Innoviva and 4 mentions for OPKO Health. Innoviva's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat OPKO Health's score of 0.88 indicating that Innoviva is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
OPKO Health currently has a consensus target price of $3.73, indicating a potential upside of 195.63%. Given OPKO Health's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe OPKO Health is more favorable than Innoviva.
Summary
Innoviva beats OPKO Health on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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