IMI vs. MRO, SPX, SMIN, WEIR, ROR, BOY, MGAM, GDWN, ITM, and CGS
Should you be buying IMI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IMI include Melrose Industries (MRO), Spirax-Sarco Engineering (SPX), Smiths Group (SMIN), The Weir Group (WEIR), Rotork (ROR), Bodycote (BOY), Morgan Advanced Materials (MGAM), Goodwin (GDWN), ITM Power (ITM), and Castings (CGS). These companies are all part of the "specialty industrial machinery" industry.
IMI (LON:IMI) and Melrose Industries (LON:MRO) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, profitability and media sentiment.
In the previous week, IMI had 1 more articles in the media than Melrose Industries. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for IMI and 2 mentions for Melrose Industries. Melrose Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat IMI's score of 0.36 indicating that Melrose Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
76.1% of IMI shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.9% of Melrose Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of IMI shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Melrose Industries shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
IMI has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Melrose Industries.
IMI has a beta of 1.13, indicating that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Melrose Industries has a beta of 1.59, indicating that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
IMI presently has a consensus price target of GBX 1,983.33, indicating a potential upside of 5.67%. Melrose Industries has a consensus price target of GBX 590, indicating a potential downside of 4.85%. Given IMI's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe IMI is more favorable than Melrose Industries.
Melrose Industries received 435 more outperform votes than IMI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.69% of users gave Melrose Industries an outperform vote while only 59.58% of users gave IMI an outperform vote.
IMI has a net margin of 10.81% compared to Melrose Industries' net margin of -30.42%. IMI's return on equity of 24.52% beat Melrose Industries' return on equity.
IMI pays an annual dividend of GBX 28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Melrose Industries pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. IMI pays out 3,010.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
IMI beats Melrose Industries on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding IMI and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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