JAZZ vs. PRGO, CORT, ITCI, CYTK, ELAN, BPMC, CERE, IONS, ASND, and LEGN
Should you be buying Jazz Pharmaceuticals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Jazz Pharmaceuticals include Perrigo (PRGO), Corcept Therapeutics (CORT), Intra-Cellular Therapies (ITCI), Cytokinetics (CYTK), Elanco Animal Health (ELAN), Blueprint Medicines (BPMC), Cerevel Therapeutics (CERE), Ionis Pharmaceuticals (IONS), Ascendis Pharma A/S (ASND), and Legend Biotech (LEGN). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Perrigo (NYSE:PRGO) and Jazz Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:JAZZ) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, risk, community ranking and valuation.
Perrigo has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Jazz Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Jazz Pharmaceuticals received 334 more outperform votes than Perrigo when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.54% of users gave Jazz Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 66.75% of users gave Perrigo an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Perrigo had 5 more articles in the media than Jazz Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Perrigo and 5 mentions for Jazz Pharmaceuticals. Perrigo's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Jazz Pharmaceuticals' score of 0.69 indicating that Jazz Pharmaceuticals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
95.9% of Perrigo shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.1% of Jazz Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Perrigo shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.4% of Jazz Pharmaceuticals shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Perrigo currently has a consensus price target of $40.67, suggesting a potential upside of 36.33%. Jazz Pharmaceuticals has a consensus price target of $192.75, suggesting a potential upside of 76.85%. Given Perrigo's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Jazz Pharmaceuticals is more favorable than Perrigo.
Jazz Pharmaceuticals has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Perrigo. Perrigo is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Jazz Pharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Jazz Pharmaceuticals has a net margin of 8.61% compared to Jazz Pharmaceuticals' net margin of -0.17%. Perrigo's return on equity of 27.86% beat Jazz Pharmaceuticals' return on equity.
Summary
Jazz Pharmaceuticals beats Perrigo on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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