QGEN vs. TECH, RGEN, EXEL, PCVX, RVMD, NBIX, IBRX, HALO, CRSP, and KRYS
Should you be buying Qiagen stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Qiagen include Bio-Techne (TECH), Repligen (RGEN), Exelixis (EXEL), Vaxcyte (PCVX), Revolution Medicines (RVMD), Neurocrine Biosciences (NBIX), ImmunityBio (IBRX), Halozyme Therapeutics (HALO), CRISPR Therapeutics (CRSP), and Krystal Biotech (KRYS). These companies are all part of the "biological products, except diagnostic" industry.
Bio-Techne (NASDAQ:TECH) and Qiagen (NYSE:QGEN) are both medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, dividends and community ranking.
Bio-Techne received 143 more outperform votes than Qiagen when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.48% of users gave Bio-Techne an outperform vote while only 60.79% of users gave Qiagen an outperform vote.
Bio-Techne has a beta of 1.23, suggesting that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Qiagen has a beta of 0.42, suggesting that its share price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Bio-Techne has a net margin of 17.59% compared to Bio-Techne's net margin of 17.38%. Qiagen's return on equity of 13.60% beat Bio-Techne's return on equity.
99.0% of Bio-Techne shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.0% of Qiagen shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.5% of Bio-Techne shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.0% of Qiagen shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Bio-Techne presently has a consensus target price of $80.50, indicating a potential upside of 5.26%. Qiagen has a consensus target price of $50.95, indicating a potential upside of 18.18%. Given Bio-Techne's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Qiagen is more favorable than Bio-Techne.
In the previous week, Qiagen had 3 more articles in the media than Bio-Techne. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for Qiagen and 30 mentions for Bio-Techne. Qiagen's average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat Bio-Techne's score of 0.30 indicating that Bio-Techne is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Qiagen has higher revenue and earnings than Bio-Techne. Qiagen is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bio-Techne, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Bio-Techne beats Qiagen on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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