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Porvair (PRV) Competitors

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GBX 734 -28.00 (-3.67%)
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PRV vs. AFS, MYX, AEG, GEC, DATA, TPK, HAS, CKN, REDD, and FAN

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), GlobalData (DATA), Travis Perkins (TPK), Hays (HAS), Clarkson (CKN), Redde Northgate (REDD), and Volution Group (FAN). 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 stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, valuation, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and community ranking.

In the previous week, Porvair had 4 more articles in the media than Amiad Water Systems. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Porvair and 0 mentions for Amiad Water Systems. Porvair's average media sentiment score of 0.43 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 Neutral

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£179.19M1.87£15.35M£33.7321.76

60.2% of Porvair shares are held by institutional investors. 21.6% of Porvair shares are held by 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.

Porvair has a consensus price target of GBX 800, suggesting a potential upside of 8.99%. Given Porvair's stronger consensus rating and higher probable 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

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 received 108 more outperform votes than Amiad Water Systems when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.90% 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
73.90%
Underperform Votes
65
26.10%

Summary

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

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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PRV vs. The Competition

MetricPorvairPollution & Treatment Controls IndustryIndustrials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£335.84M£83.71M£6.61B£2.47B
Dividend Yield0.87%19.64%3.60%4.95%
P/E Ratio21.767.1020.28129.44
Price / Sales1.8732.7075.35231,114.05
Price / Cash17.3719.0626.9427.96
Price / Book2.303.023.554.45
Net Income£15.35M-£1.02M£798.80M£5.80B
7 Day Performance6.38%-1.72%2.82%3.14%
1 Month Performance11.89%-1.31%-4.25%3.83%
1 Year Performance19.54%-23.03%10.40%102.58%

Porvair Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PRV
Porvair
0.8364 of 5 stars
GBX 734
-3.7%
GBX 800
+9.0%
+22.9%£335.84M£179.19M21.76976Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
AFS
Amiad Water Systems
N/AN/AN/AN/A£110.71M£104.60M53.533,950Gap Up
High Trading Volume
MYX
MYCELX Technologies
N/AGBX 23.85
-1.8%
GBX 95
+298.3%
-56.2%£6.86M£11.21M-1.90N/A
AEG
Active Energy Group
N/AGBX 0.24
+1.7%
N/A-25.8%£494,000.00N/A-0.8822,300
GEC
General Electric
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.14B£69.52B27.63125,000Gap Up
DATA
GlobalData
1.8654 of 5 stars
GBX 137
+0.7%
GBX 300
+119.0%
-29.2%£1.10B£277.36M32.743,532
TPK
Travis Perkins
2.2849 of 5 stars
GBX 520.50
+4.2%
GBX 900
+72.9%
-26.1%£1.10B£4.77B-63.0119,172High Trading Volume
HAS
Hays
2.9378 of 5 stars
GBX 69.20
+6.5%
GBX 120
+73.4%
-21.2%£1.09B£6.91B-221.996,490High Trading Volume
CKN
Clarkson
N/AGBX 3,190
+4.2%
GBX 4,562.50
+43.0%
-19.1%£982.66M£632.60M11.872,024Negative News
High Trading Volume
REDD
Redde Northgate
N/AN/AN/AN/A£972.30M£1.70B753.517,500
FAN
Volution Group
1.5358 of 5 stars
GBX 492.70
+3.8%
GBX 700
+42.1%
+28.2%£972.00M£346.77M22.681,909Gap Down
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This page (LON:PRV) was last updated on 4/17/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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