ROR vs. MRO, SMIN, WEIR, SPX, IMI, BOY, MGAM, GDWN, ITM, and MPAC
Should you be buying Rotork stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rotork include Melrose Industries (MRO), Smiths Group (SMIN), The Weir Group (WEIR), Spirax-Sarco Engineering (SPX), IMI (IMI), 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.
Rotork vs.
Rotork (LON:ROR) and Melrose Industries (LON:MRO) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, risk, valuation and media sentiment.
Rotork has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Melrose Industries. Melrose Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rotork, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Rotork has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Melrose Industries has a beta of 1.51, meaning that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Rotork has a net margin of 15.98% compared to Melrose Industries' net margin of -1.13%. Rotork's return on equity of 19.42% beat Melrose Industries' return on equity.
Rotork presently has a consensus target price of GBX 385, suggesting a potential upside of 18.53%. Melrose Industries has a consensus target price of GBX 640, suggesting a potential upside of 30.28%. Given Melrose Industries' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Melrose Industries is more favorable than Rotork.
In the previous week, Melrose Industries had 26 more articles in the media than Rotork. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Melrose Industries and 2 mentions for Rotork. Rotork's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Melrose Industries' score of 0.27 indicating that Rotork is being referred to more favorably in the media.
70.6% of Rotork shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.7% of Melrose Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Rotork shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Melrose Industries shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Rotork pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Melrose Industries pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Rotork pays out 50.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Melrose Industries pays out -202.9% 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.
Melrose Industries received 641 more outperform votes than Rotork when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.60% of users gave Melrose Industries an outperform vote while only 44.44% of users gave Rotork an outperform vote.
Summary
Rotork beats Melrose Industries on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:ROR) was last updated on 3/8/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
