MRO vs. SPX, SMIN, WEIR, IMI, ROR, BOY, MGAM, GDWN, ITM, and CGS
Should you be buying Melrose Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Melrose Industries include Spirax-Sarco Engineering (SPX), Smiths Group (SMIN), The Weir Group (WEIR), IMI (IMI), 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.
Spirax-Sarco Engineering (LON:SPX) and Melrose Industries (LON:MRO) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, valuation, community ranking and earnings.
Spirax-Sarco Engineering has a beta of 0.71, suggesting that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Melrose Industries has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Spirax-Sarco Engineering has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Melrose Industries.
In the previous week, Melrose Industries had 1 more articles in the media than Spirax-Sarco Engineering. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Melrose Industries and 1 mentions for Spirax-Sarco Engineering. Spirax-Sarco Engineering's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Melrose Industries' score of 0.59 indicating that Melrose Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Spirax-Sarco Engineering currently has a consensus price target of £101.50, suggesting a potential upside of 13.34%. Melrose Industries has a consensus price target of GBX 590, suggesting a potential downside of 4.13%. Given Melrose Industries' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Spirax-Sarco Engineering is more favorable than Melrose Industries.
Spirax-Sarco Engineering pays an annual dividend of GBX 160 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Melrose Industries pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Spirax-Sarco Engineering pays out 6,425.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Melrose Industries received 619 more outperform votes than Spirax-Sarco Engineering when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.69% of users gave Melrose Industries an outperform vote while only 54.73% of users gave Spirax-Sarco Engineering an outperform vote.
81.4% of Spirax-Sarco Engineering shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.9% of Melrose Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Spirax-Sarco Engineering shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Melrose Industries shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Spirax-Sarco Engineering has a net margin of 10.91% compared to Spirax-Sarco Engineering's net margin of -30.42%. Melrose Industries' return on equity of 15.81% beat Spirax-Sarco Engineering's return on equity.
Summary
Melrose Industries beats Spirax-Sarco Engineering on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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