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Porvair (PRV) Competitors

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GBX 683.10 -4.90 (-0.71%)
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PRV vs. AFS, MYX, AEG, SMS, BIFF, WIZZ, BOY, GEC, HAS, 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), Smart Metering Systems (SMS), Biffa (BIFF), Wizz Air (WIZZ), Bodycote (BOY), General Electric (GEC), Hays (HAS), 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 investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Porvair has a net margin of 8.57% compared to Amiad Water Systems' net margin of 0.00%. Porvair's return on equity of 10.90% 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%10.90%6.39%

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. Amiad Water Systems' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Porvair'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Amiad Water Systems Neutral
Porvair Neutral

Porvair has a consensus target price of GBX 800, suggesting a potential upside of 16.28%. 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 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%

60.2% of Porvair shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.6% of Porvair shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

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£180.10M1.76£15.43M£0.342,023.53

Summary

Porvair beats Amiad Water Systems on 13 of the 14 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£316.27M£85.57M£4.78B£2.04B
Dividend Yield0.91%19.35%3.95%5.16%
P/E Ratio2,023.53112.25368.381,926.65
Price / Sales1.7633.72363.59384,006.48
Price / Cash17.3719.0629.7029.21
Price / Book2.163.933.413.08
Net Income£15.43M-£2.45M£195.68M£183.60M
7 Day Performance-0.29%1.04%1.71%3.09%
1 Month Performance-2.27%-1.22%1.50%3.42%
1 Year Performance5.20%9.80%29.89%165.41%

Porvair Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PRV
Porvair
2.1991 of 5 stars
GBX 683.10
-0.7%
GBX 800
+17.1%
+5.2%£314.02M£180.10M2,009.12976News Coverage
Positive News
AFS
Amiad Water Systems
N/AN/AN/AN/A£110.71M£104.60M53.533,950Gap Up
High Trading Volume
MYX
MYCELX Technologies
2.0746 of 5 stars
GBX 36.05
+0.1%
GBX 95
+163.5%
-38.7%£8.78M£8.84M-327.73N/ANews Coverage
High Trading Volume
AEG
Active Energy Group
N/AGBX 0.17
-5.9%
N/A-87.6%£282,000.00£1.95M-8.7022,300
SMS
Smart Metering Systems
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.27B£135.52M8,654.551,361News Coverage
BIFF
Biffa
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.26B£1.44B-51.257,357
WIZZ
Wizz Air
3.1206 of 5 stars
GBX 1,202
-2.2%
GBX 2,725
+126.7%
-23.8%£1.24B£5.10B482.737,389
BOY
Bodycote
2.9208 of 5 stars
GBX 629
-1.0%
GBX 812.50
+29.2%
+6.9%£1.15B£781.40M1,906.064,833News Coverage
GEC
General Electric
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.14B£69.52B27.63125,000Gap Up
HAS
Hays
3.3395 of 5 stars
GBX 71.45
+0.7%
GBX 120
+67.9%
-22.2%£1.14B£6.95B1,905.006,490
FAN
Volution Group
1.6822 of 5 stars
GBX 511
-2.3%
GBX 700
+37.0%
+34.2%£1.01B£338.20M2,433.331,909

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This page (LON:PRV) was last updated on 1/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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