ROR vs. SMIN, WEIR, MRO, SPX, IMI, BOY, MGAM, GDWN, ITM, and LOAD
Should you be buying Rotork stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rotork include Smiths Group (SMIN), The Weir Group (WEIR), Melrose Industries (MRO), Spirax-Sarco Engineering (SPX), IMI (IMI), Bodycote (BOY), Morgan Advanced Materials (MGAM), Goodwin (GDWN), ITM Power (ITM), and Crestchic (LOAD). These companies are all part of the "specialty industrial machinery" industry.
Rotork vs.
Rotork (LON:ROR) and Smiths Group (LON:SMIN) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and community ranking.
Smiths Group has higher revenue and earnings than Rotork. Rotork is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Smiths Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Rotork has a net margin of 15.98% compared to Smiths Group's net margin of 7.98%. Rotork's return on equity of 19.42% beat Smiths Group's return on equity.
Rotork has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Smiths Group has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
70.6% of Rotork shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.2% of Smiths Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Rotork shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Smiths Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Rotork pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Smiths Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 44 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Rotork pays out 50.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Smiths Group pays out 61.1% 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.
Rotork presently has a consensus price target of GBX 380, suggesting a potential upside of 30.12%. Smiths Group has a consensus price target of GBX 2,015, suggesting a potential upside of 12.32%. Given Rotork's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Rotork is more favorable than Smiths Group.
Smiths Group received 88 more outperform votes than Rotork when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.48% of users gave Smiths Group an outperform vote while only 44.51% of users gave Rotork an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Rotork had 6 more articles in the media than Smiths Group. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Rotork and 1 mentions for Smiths Group. Rotork's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Smiths Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Rotork is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Rotork and Smiths Group tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:ROR) was last updated on 4/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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