IMI vs. SMIN, MRO, WEIR, SPX, ROR, BOY, MGAM, GDWN, ITM, and MPAC
Should you be buying IMI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IMI include Smiths Group (SMIN), Melrose Industries (MRO), The Weir Group (WEIR), Spirax-Sarco Engineering (SPX), Rotork (ROR), Bodycote (BOY), Morgan Advanced Materials (MGAM), Goodwin (GDWN), ITM Power (ITM), and Mpac Group (MPAC). These companies are all part of the "specialty industrial machinery" industry.
IMI vs.
Smiths Group (LON:SMIN) and IMI (LON:IMI) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.
Smiths Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 44 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. IMI pays an annual dividend of GBX 29 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Smiths Group pays out 61.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. IMI pays out 29.7% 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.
IMI has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Smiths Group. IMI is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Smiths Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
72.2% of Smiths Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.1% of IMI shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Smiths Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of IMI shares are owned 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.
IMI has a net margin of 11.46% compared to Smiths Group's net margin of 7.98%. IMI's return on equity of 23.85% beat Smiths Group's return on equity.
IMI received 114 more outperform votes than Smiths Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.48% of users gave Smiths Group an outperform vote while only 59.62% of users gave IMI an outperform vote.
In the previous week, IMI had 1 more articles in the media than Smiths Group. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for IMI and 6 mentions for Smiths Group. Smiths Group's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat IMI's score of -0.10 indicating that Smiths Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Smiths Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 2,015, indicating a potential downside of 0.44%. IMI has a consensus target price of GBX 2,400, indicating a potential upside of 21.58%. Given IMI's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe IMI is more favorable than Smiths Group.
Smiths Group has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IMI has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
IMI beats Smiths Group on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:IMI) was last updated on 3/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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