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Porvair (PRV) Competitors

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GBX 679.32 +3.32 (+0.49%)
As of 06:23 AM Eastern

PRV vs. AFS, MYX, AEG, GEC, FAN, CKN, PAGE, FGP, CHG, and BOY

Should you be buying Porvair stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Porvair include Amiad Water Systems (AFS), MYCELX Technologies (MYX), Active Energy Group (AEG), General Electric (GEC), Volution Group (FAN), Clarkson (CKN), PageGroup (PAGE), FirstGroup (FGP), Chemring Group (CHG), and Bodycote (BOY). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.

Porvair vs.

Amiad Water Systems (LON:AFS) and Porvair (LON:PRV) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, risk and media sentiment.

Porvair received 108 more outperform votes than Amiad Water Systems when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.19% of users gave Porvair an outperform vote while only 73.08% of users gave Amiad Water Systems an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Amiad Water SystemsOutperform Votes
76
73.08%
Underperform Votes
28
26.92%
PorvairOutperform Votes
184
74.19%
Underperform Votes
64
25.81%

Porvair has higher revenue and earnings than Amiad Water Systems. Amiad Water Systems is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Porvair, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Amiad Water Systems£104.60M0.00N/A£6.80N/A
Porvair£179.19M1.75£15.35M£33.7320.28

60.2% of Porvair shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.6% of Porvair shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Porvair has a net margin of 8.57% compared to Amiad Water Systems' net margin of 0.00%. Porvair's return on equity of 10.75% beat Amiad Water Systems' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Amiad Water SystemsN/A N/A N/A
Porvair 8.57%10.75%6.39%

Porvair has a consensus price target of GBX 800, indicating a potential upside of 16.96%. Given Porvair's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Porvair is more favorable than Amiad Water Systems.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Amiad Water Systems
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Porvair
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

In the previous week, Porvair had 1 more articles in the media than Amiad Water Systems. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Porvair and 0 mentions for Amiad Water Systems. Porvair's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Amiad Water Systems' score of 0.00 indicating that Porvair is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Amiad Water Systems Neutral
Porvair Positive

Summary

Porvair beats Amiad Water Systems on 14 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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PRV vs. The Competition

MetricPorvairPollution & Treatment Controls IndustryIndustrials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£312.97M£83.16M£7.08B£2.60B
Dividend Yield0.87%19.64%3.54%4.95%
P/E Ratio20.287.3321.05152.77
Price / Sales1.7533.1674.10282,666.96
Price / Cash17.3719.0626.8327.91
Price / Book2.153.203.744.60
Net Income£15.35M-£1.02M£793.45M£5.77B
7 Day Performance3.11%0.20%0.06%-0.24%
1 Month Performance-4.47%-7.89%0.14%4.15%
1 Year Performance9.27%-15.08%28.79%133.38%

Porvair Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PRV
Porvair
2.4178 of 5 stars
GBX 679.32
+0.5%
GBX 800
+17.8%
+9.3%£310.82M£179.19M20.14976
AFS
Amiad Water Systems
N/AN/AN/AN/A£110.71M£104.60M53.533,950Gap Up
High Trading Volume
MYX
MYCELX Technologies
N/AGBX 32.50
flat
GBX 95
+192.3%
-43.6%£9.35M£11.21M-2.59N/A
AEG
Active Energy Group
N/AGBX 0.20
-4.8%
N/A-56.6%£405,000.00N/A-0.7222,300Gap Down
GEC
General Electric
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.14B£69.52B27.63125,000Gap Up
FAN
Volution Group
1.2644 of 5 stars
GBX 566
-1.0%
GBX 700
+23.7%
+33.0%£1.12B£346.77M26.051,909Gap Down
High Trading Volume
CKN
Clarkson
N/AGBX 3,520
-2.4%
GBX 4,562.50
+29.6%
-11.0%£1.08B£632.60M13.102,024High Trading Volume
PAGE
PageGroup
3.2788 of 5 stars
GBX 340.60
+1.2%
GBX 495
+45.3%
-26.5%£1.07B£1.87B21.087,859Gap Down
High Trading Volume
FGP
FirstGroup
1.2436 of 5 stars
GBX 180.40
+2.2%
GBX 202.50
+12.3%
-9.4%£1.06B£3.75B-84.2931,477High Trading Volume
CHG
Chemring Group
1.5317 of 5 stars
GBX 394.50
-0.5%
GBX 429.50
+8.9%
+5.5%£1.06B£340.84M483.022,600Dividend Increase
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
BOY
Bodycote
2.951 of 5 stars
GBX 578
-3.5%
GBX 812.50
+40.6%
-16.1%£1.04B£739.54M17.394,833Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
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This page (LON:PRV) was last updated on 3/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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