Verdict: Side-by-side breakdown using the Bull Rankings model. UTHR scored 55.0, AZN scored 72.0 — AZN leads.
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Different reporting periods. UTHR's fundamentals are as of June 2026, but AZN's are as of December 2025 — a 6-month gap. Growth, margin and valuation figures below therefore describe different windows and aren't strictly like-for-like.
UTHR
United Therapeutics Corporation
Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic · Quality-Growth
55
$549.16 · $23.6B
fundamentals as of
Score gap
17.0
AZN leads
AZN
AstraZeneca PLC
Drug Manufacturers - General · Quality-Growth
72
$159.20 · $246.9B
fundamentals as of
At a glance · who leads each dimension, on the model's own rules
CheapestUTHR19.7x
Fastest growthAZN+8.6%
Strongest balance sheetUTHR0.00
Highest qualityUTHR94 / 100
Side by side · every name on one set of axes
Growth against the P/E multiple. Up and to the right is cheaper and faster — the quality-growth idea in one picture. Points beyond the axis are pinned to the edge and marked off-scale rather than allowed to compress everything else.
The model, pillar by pillar (0–100 each)
UTHR
stronger →← stronger
AZN
94
Qualityreturns · margins · balance sheet
78
50
Growthrevenue & earnings expansion
78
35
Valuevaluation vs sector peers
61
AZN is stronger on 2 of 3 pillars.
Fundamentals, head-to-head
UTHR
AZN
$1.1bC+
FCF
$11.8bA-
+2.5%C
Rev
+8.6%B
0.00A
D/E
0.64C+
19.7xB+
P/E
23.8xB+
2.22C
PEG
1.12B+
Winner per row is the stronger grade; where grades tie, the better figure breaks it. A true tie or a missing value shows no highlight.
Valuation · DCF cross-check
UTHR
AZN
26% above
Price vs fair valuelower is cheaper
11% above
~13%/yr
Growth the price impliesyr-1 FCF growth, fading to 4% · lower = less priced in
~12%/yr
-27%
1-yr DCF upside
-22%
-21%
5-yr DCF upside
-10%
-11%
10-yr DCF upside
+10%
The DCF is a cross-check on intrinsic value, separate from the quality-growth score above.
Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic · market cap $23.6b. 10% off the 52-week high of $609.35. 14 sell-side analysts rate this a Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $651.86 (implying +19% upside).
Moat
Net margin 42% is exceptional — pricing-power territory rare outside premium software, branded staples, and specialty pharma. ROE 20% is above 15% — the equity base is compounding at a rate the market struggles to discount accurately. Pharma moat is patent runway + pipeline depth — a single approved molecule funds the next generation of bets. Late-stage trials carry binary readouts that swing valuation 30%+.
Risk
Trial-readout binary — late-stage clinical trials carry approve/reject outcomes that swing valuation 30%+; the equity is effectively a portfolio of these binary events, not a steady cash-flow business.
AZNAstraZeneca PLC
Drug Manufacturers - General · $159.20 · beta 0.21
Why now
Drug Manufacturers - General · market cap $246.9b. Down 25% from 52-week high of $212.71 — deep drawdown territory. 12 sell-side analysts rate this a Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $206.91 (implying +30% upside).
Moat
Net margin 17% beats the market median by a meaningful margin — the company is keeping more of every revenue dollar than the average S&P constituent. ROE 21% is above 15% — the equity base is compounding at a rate the market struggles to discount accurately. FCF converts 115% of net income — earnings translate cleanly into cash.
Risk
Trial-readout binary — late-stage clinical trials carry approve/reject outcomes that swing valuation 30%+; the equity is effectively a portfolio of these binary events, not a steady cash-flow business.
Verdict — model-derived comparison
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Where UTHR and AZN diverge
On the headline score the gap is 17.0 points in favor of AZN. They get there differently, though — each leads on a different pillar, so the better pick depends on which you weight.
GrowthUTHR 50.2 · AZN 78.5AZN +28.3
ValueUTHR 35.4 · AZN 61.1AZN +25.7
QualityUTHR 94.0 · AZN 77.8UTHR +16.2
Pillars run 0–100. Value is judged against each company's own sector, so a Value score is a statement about a company relative to its own industry rather than to the other name here. A wide Value gap usually means the market already prices the difference in quality or growth — which is the trade-off this comparison comes down to.
Common questions
Is AZN or UTHR the better stock?
AZN scores higher: AZN 72.0, UTHR 55.0 out of 100 on the Bull Rankings quality-growth score, which blends business quality, growth and valuation into one number. A higher score means a stronger business at a more reasonable price — it is not a price target or a recommendation.
Where do AZN and UTHR differ most?
The widest gap is growth, where AZN leads by 28 points on the 0–100 pillar scale. Neither name sweeps: they trade the lead across the three pillars, so the comparison is a trade-off rather than one being better on every measure.
How are AZN and UTHR scored?
Each carries the same 0–100 quality-growth score used everywhere on the site, built from three pillars — quality (profitability and returns on capital), growth (revenue and earnings), and value (what you pay for them) — combined as a geometric mean, so a weak pillar cannot be papered over by a strong one.
How current is this comparison?
The whole universe is re-scored every trading day after the US market close, so the scores and fundamentals here reflect the latest published edition.