CGS vs. RNO, AVG, LOAD, MPAC, PHE, CPH2, XSG, GPL, SIXH, and CMH
Should you be buying Castings stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Castings include Renold (RNO), Avingtrans (AVG), Crestchic (LOAD), Mpac Group (MPAC), PowerHouse Energy Group (PHE), Clean Power Hydrogen (CPH2), Xeros Technology Group (XSG), Graft Polymer (GPL), The 600 Group (SIXH), and Chamberlin (CMH). These companies are all part of the "specialty industrial machinery" industry.
Castings vs. Its Competitors
Castings (LON:CGS) and Renold (LON:RNO) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.
Castings has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Renold has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Renold has higher revenue and earnings than Castings. Castings is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Renold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
51.7% of Castings shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.1% of Renold shares are held by institutional investors. 21.4% of Castings shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 37.8% of Renold shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Castings had 1 more articles in the media than Renold. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Castings and 0 mentions for Renold. Renold's average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat Castings' score of 0.46 indicating that Renold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Castings presently has a consensus target price of GBX 332.50, suggesting a potential upside of 0.15%. Given Castings' higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Castings is more favorable than Renold.
Castings pays an annual dividend of GBX 18 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Renold pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Castings pays out 47.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Renold pays out 12.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Castings has a net margin of 7.45% compared to Renold's net margin of 7.08%. Renold's return on equity of 32.63% beat Castings' return on equity.
Summary
Renold beats Castings on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:CGS) was last updated on 7/16/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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