APLS vs. BBIO, OGN, IONS, MDGL, ALPN, NUVL, CYTK, ALKS, PRGO, and BPMC
Should you be buying Apellis Pharmaceuticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Apellis Pharmaceuticals include BridgeBio Pharma (BBIO), Organon & Co. (OGN), Ionis Pharmaceuticals (IONS), Madrigal Pharmaceuticals (MDGL), Alpine Immune Sciences (ALPN), Nuvalent (NUVL), Cytokinetics (CYTK), Alkermes (ALKS), Perrigo (PRGO), and Blueprint Medicines (BPMC). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
BridgeBio Pharma (NASDAQ:BBIO) and Apellis Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:APLS) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, risk and valuation.
BridgeBio Pharma currently has a consensus price target of $48.00, indicating a potential upside of 59.52%. Apellis Pharmaceuticals has a consensus price target of $76.67, indicating a potential upside of 85.59%. Given BridgeBio Pharma's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Apellis Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than BridgeBio Pharma.
99.9% of BridgeBio Pharma shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.3% of Apellis Pharmaceuticals shares are owned by institutional investors. 28.5% of BridgeBio Pharma shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.5% of Apellis Pharmaceuticals 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.
In the previous week, Apellis Pharmaceuticals had 7 more articles in the media than BridgeBio Pharma. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Apellis Pharmaceuticals and 17 mentions for BridgeBio Pharma. BridgeBio Pharma's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Apellis Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.61 indicating that Apellis Pharmaceuticals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Apellis Pharmaceuticals received 177 more outperform votes than BridgeBio Pharma when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.63% of users gave BridgeBio Pharma an outperform vote while only 67.45% of users gave Apellis Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote.
BridgeBio Pharma has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Apellis Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Apellis Pharmaceuticals has higher revenue and earnings than BridgeBio Pharma. Apellis Pharmaceuticals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BridgeBio Pharma, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Apellis Pharmaceuticals has a net margin of -79.67% compared to Apellis Pharmaceuticals' net margin of -246.24%. Apellis Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of 0.00% beat BridgeBio Pharma's return on equity.
Summary
BridgeBio Pharma and Apellis Pharmaceuticals tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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