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IQV vs MEDP

Side-by-side comparison of IQVIA Holdings Inc. (IQV) and Medpace Holdings Inc. (MEDP): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both IQV and MEDP operate in Biotechnology: Commercial Physical & Biological Resarch (Health Care), so they compete in similar markets.
  • IQV is the larger of the two at $30.62B, about 2.4x MEDP ($12.97B).
  • Over the past year, IQV is up 19.0% and MEDP is up 52.4% - MEDP leads by 33.4 points.
  • MEDP has been more active in the news (10 items in the past 4 weeks vs 5 for IQV).
  • Both have 25 recent analyst ratings on file.
PerformanceIQV+19.05%MEDP+52.44%
2025-06-09+0.00%2026-06-05
MetricIQVMEDP
Company
IQVIA Holdings Inc.
Medpace Holdings Inc.
Price
$183.43-1.87%
$454.36-0.89%
Market cap
$30.62B
$12.97B
1M return
+3.96%
+6.48%
1Y return
+19.05%
+52.44%
Industry
Biotechnology: Commercial Physical & Biological Resarch
Biotechnology: Commercial Physical & Biological Resarch
Exchange
NYSE
NASDAQ
IPO
2013
2016
News (4w)
5
10
Recent ratings
25
25
IQV

IQVIA Holdings Inc.

IQVIA Holdings Inc. provides advanced analytics, technology solutions, and clinical research services to the life sciences industry in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific. It operates through three segments: Technology & Analytics Solutions, Research & Development Solutions, and Contract Sales & Medical Solutions. The Technology & Analytics Solutions segment offers a range of cloud-based applications and related implementation services; real world solutions that enable life sciences and provider customers to generate and disseminate evidence, which informs health care decision making and improves patients' outcomes; and strategic and implementation consulting services, such as advanced analytics and commercial processes outsourcing services. This segment also provides country level performance metrics related to sales of pharmaceutical products, prescribing trends, medical treatment, and promotional activity across various channels, including retail, hospital, and mail order; and measurement of sales or prescribing activity at the regional, zip code, and individual prescriber level. The Research & Development Solutions segment offers project management and clinical monitoring; clinical trial support; virtual trials; and strategic planning and design services, as well as central laboratory, genomic, bioanalytical, ADME, discovery, and vaccine and biomarker laboratory services. The Contract Sales & Medical Solutions segment provides health care provider and patient engagement services, and scientific strategy and medical affairs services. It serves pharmaceutical, biotechnology, device and diagnostic, and consumer health companies. The company was formerly known as Quintiles IMS Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to IQVIA Holdings Inc. in November 2017. IQVIA Holdings Inc. was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.

MEDP

Medpace Holdings Inc.

Medpace Holdings, Inc. provides clinical research-based drug and medical device development services in North America, Europe, and Asia. The company offers a suite of services supporting the clinical development process from Phase I to Phase IV in various therapeutic areas. It also provides clinical development services to the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and medical device industries; and development plan design, coordinated central laboratory, project management, regulatory affairs, clinical monitoring, data management and analysis, pharmacovigilance new drug application submissions, and post-marketing clinical support services. The company also provides bio-analytical laboratory services, clinical human pharmacology, imaging services, and electrocardiography reading support for clinical trials. Medpace Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1992 and is based in Cincinnati, Ohio.