SNY vs. VRTX, REGN, GSK, BMY, PFE, ZTS, ABT, TAK, NVS, and AZN
Should you be buying Sanofi stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sanofi include Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX), Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (REGN), GSK (GSK), Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), Pfizer (PFE), Zoetis (ZTS), Abbott Laboratories (ABT), Takeda Pharmaceutical (TAK), Novartis (NVS), and AstraZeneca (AZN). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical preparations" industry.
Sanofi (NASDAQ:SNY) and Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:VRTX) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking and profitability.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals has a net margin of 39.46% compared to Sanofi's net margin of 10.52%. Vertex Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of 23.08% beat Sanofi's return on equity.
10.0% of Sanofi shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.0% of Vertex Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Sanofi shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Vertex Pharmaceuticals shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Sanofi has higher revenue and earnings than Vertex Pharmaceuticals. Sanofi is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vertex Pharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Sanofi had 1 more articles in the media than Vertex Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Sanofi and 15 mentions for Vertex Pharmaceuticals. Vertex Pharmaceuticals' average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Sanofi's score of 0.66 indicating that Vertex Pharmaceuticals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals received 1518 more outperform votes than Sanofi when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.62% of users gave Vertex Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote while only 53.23% of users gave Sanofi an outperform vote.
Sanofi currently has a consensus target price of $55.00, indicating a potential upside of 13.01%. Vertex Pharmaceuticals has a consensus target price of $432.18, indicating a potential downside of 2.93%. Given Sanofi's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Sanofi is more favorable than Vertex Pharmaceuticals.
Sanofi has a beta of 0.61, indicating that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vertex Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.39, indicating that its share price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Vertex Pharmaceuticals beats Sanofi on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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