GDWN vs. BOY, MGAM, ITM, CGS, RNO, AVG, LOAD, MPAC, PHE, and CPH2
Should you be buying Goodwin stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Goodwin include Bodycote (BOY), Morgan Advanced Materials (MGAM), ITM Power (ITM), Castings (CGS), Renold (RNO), Avingtrans (AVG), Crestchic (LOAD), Mpac Group (MPAC), PowerHouse Energy Group (PHE), and Clean Power Hydrogen (CPH2). These companies are all part of the "specialty industrial machinery" industry.
Bodycote (LON:BOY) and Goodwin (LON:GDWN) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.
Bodycote has a net margin of 10.67% compared to Bodycote's net margin of 8.18%. Bodycote's return on equity of 13.85% beat Goodwin's return on equity.
Bodycote received 485 more outperform votes than Goodwin when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.53% of users gave Bodycote an outperform vote while only 65.79% of users gave Goodwin an outperform vote.
Bodycote has a beta of 1.19, suggesting that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Goodwin has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Bodycote has higher revenue and earnings than Goodwin. Bodycote is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Goodwin, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Bodycote had 2 more articles in the media than Goodwin. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Bodycote and 1 mentions for Goodwin. Goodwin's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Bodycote's score of 0.15 indicating that Bodycote is being referred to more favorably in the media.
63.2% of Bodycote shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.9% of Goodwin shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Bodycote shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 67.6% of Goodwin shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Bodycote pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Goodwin pays an annual dividend of GBX 115 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Bodycote pays out 5,111.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Goodwin pays out 5,502.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Bodycote is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Bodycote presently has a consensus target price of GBX 710, suggesting a potential downside of 5.84%. Given Goodwin's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Bodycote is more favorable than Goodwin.
Summary
Bodycote beats Goodwin on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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