IQV vs. ICLR, INCY, MEDP, CRL, TAK, HUM, IDXX, CNC, ALC, and COR
Should you be buying IQVIA stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IQVIA include ICON Public (ICLR), Incyte (INCY), Medpace (MEDP), Charles River Laboratories International (CRL), Takeda Pharmaceutical (TAK), Humana (HUM), IDEXX Laboratories (IDXX), Centene (CNC), Alcon (ALC), and Cencora (COR). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
IQVIA (NYSE:IQV) and ICON Public (NASDAQ:ICLR) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, valuation, risk, earnings, media sentiment and dividends.
IQVIA has a beta of 1.52, suggesting that its share price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ICON Public has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.
IQVIA has a net margin of 9.01% compared to ICON Public's net margin of 8.30%. IQVIA's return on equity of 29.17% beat ICON Public's return on equity.
IQVIA has higher revenue and earnings than ICON Public. IQVIA is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ICON Public, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
IQVIA currently has a consensus price target of $257.57, indicating a potential upside of 11.42%. ICON Public has a consensus price target of $339.44, indicating a potential upside of 7.86%. Given IQVIA's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe IQVIA is more favorable than ICON Public.
In the previous week, IQVIA had 8 more articles in the media than ICON Public. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for IQVIA and 1 mentions for ICON Public. IQVIA's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat ICON Public's score of 0.00 indicating that IQVIA is being referred to more favorably in the media.
89.6% of IQVIA shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.6% of ICON Public shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of IQVIA shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 44.0% of ICON Public shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
IQVIA received 40 more outperform votes than ICON Public when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.03% of users gave IQVIA an outperform vote while only 64.99% of users gave ICON Public an outperform vote.
Summary
IQVIA beats ICON Public on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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