Castings (CGS) Competitors

ITM Power (LON:ITM) and Castings (LON:CGS) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, profitability, valuation and earnings.

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of ITM or CGS?

37.3% of ITM Power shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.7% of Castings shares are held by institutional investors. 48.3% of ITM Power shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 21.4% of Castings 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.

Do analysts rate ITM or CGS?

ITM Power presently has a consensus target price of GBX 69.75, indicating a potential upside of 91.52%. Castings has a consensus target price of GBX 340, indicating a potential upside of 29.77%. Given ITM Power's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe ITM Power is more favorable than Castings.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
ITM Power	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50
Castings	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Which has more risk & volatility, ITM or CGS?

ITM Power has a beta of 2.03, indicating that its stock price is 103% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Castings has a beta of 0.6, indicating that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media refer more to ITM or CGS?

In the previous week, ITM Power had 4 more articles in the media than Castings. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for ITM Power and 0 mentions for Castings. Castings' average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat ITM Power's score of 0.89 indicating that Castings is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
ITM Power	Positive
Castings	Positive

Which has higher earnings and valuation, ITM or CGS?

Castings has higher revenue and earnings than ITM Power. ITM Power is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Castings, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
ITM Power	£16.51M	13.60	-£27.22M	-£0.04	-910.50
Castings	£224.41M	0.51	£16.72M	£0.38	689.47

Is ITM or CGS more profitable?

Castings has a net margin of 7.45% compared to ITM Power's net margin of -164.90%. Castings' return on equity of 12.59% beat ITM Power's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
ITM Power	-164.90%	-9.65%	-5.81%
Castings	7.45%	12.59%	7.09%

Does the MarketBeat Community favor ITM or CGS?

ITM Power received 60 more outperform votes than Castings when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.17% of users gave Castings an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave ITM Power an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
ITM Power	Outperform Votes 176 66.67%	Underperform Votes 88 33.33%
Castings	Outperform Votes 116 71.17%	Underperform Votes 47 28.83%

Summary

Castings beats ITM Power on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.