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Rotork (ROR) Competitors

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GBX 315.37 +0.77 (+0.24%)
(As of 08:35 AM ET)

ROR vs. MRO, SMIN, WEIR, SPX, IMI, BOY, MGAM, GDWN, ITM, and AVG

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 Avingtrans (AVG). These companies are all part of the "specialty industrial machinery" industry.

Rotork vs.

Melrose Industries (LON:MRO) and Rotork (LON:ROR) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk and analyst recommendations.

Melrose Industries has a beta of 1.51, meaning that its share price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rotork has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Melrose Industries currently has a consensus target price of GBX 587.50, suggesting a potential upside of 19.63%. Rotork has a consensus target price of GBX 375, suggesting a potential upside of 18.91%. Given Melrose Industries' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Melrose Industries is more favorable than Rotork.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Melrose Industries
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50
Rotork
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67

Melrose Industries pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Rotork pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Melrose Industries pays out -20,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Rotork pays out 5,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

82.7% of Melrose Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.6% of Rotork shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Melrose Industries shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Rotork shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Rotork has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Melrose Industries£3.46B1.83-£39M-£0.03-16,370.00
Rotork£745.89M3.59£119.16M£0.142,252.64

Melrose Industries received 639 more outperform votes than Rotork when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.56% of users gave Melrose Industries an outperform vote while only 44.38% of users gave Rotork an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Melrose IndustriesOutperform Votes
1002
84.56%
Underperform Votes
183
15.44%
RotorkOutperform Votes
363
44.38%
Underperform Votes
455
55.62%

Rotork has a net margin of 15.97% compared to Melrose Industries' net margin of -1.13%. Rotork's return on equity of 20.32% beat Melrose Industries' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Melrose Industries-1.13% -1.16% 0.11%
Rotork 15.97%20.32%14.75%

In the previous week, Rotork had 1 more articles in the media than Melrose Industries. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Rotork and 1 mentions for Melrose Industries. Rotork's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Melrose Industries' score of 0.34 indicating that Rotork is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Melrose Industries
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Rotork
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Rotork beats Melrose Industries on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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ROR vs. The Competition

MetricRotorkSpecialty Industrial Machinery IndustryIndustrials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£2.68B£4.50B£3.89B£1.39B
Dividend Yield2.28%2.63%4.41%11.73%
P/E Ratio2,252.64239.46527.021,549.36
Price / Sales3.591,945.55421.83209,059.57
Price / Cash26.1410.3927.7932.93
Price / Book4.442.273.572.80
Net Income£119.16M£273.99M£179.69M£152.70M
7 Day Performance-1.08%-1.45%3.33%-0.51%
1 Month Performance-0.95%-2.64%-1.38%7.11%
1 Year Performance1.73%14.57%28.87%91.82%

Rotork Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ROR
Rotork
1.2745 of 5 stars
GBX 315.37
+0.2%
GBX 375
+18.9%
-1.1%£2.68B£745.89M2,252.643,342News Coverage
Positive News
MRO
Melrose Industries
1.8944 of 5 stars
GBX 491.10
-2.0%
GBX 587.50
+19.6%
-3.1%£6.34B£3.46B-16,706.671,570
SMIN
Smiths Group
2.9037 of 5 stars
GBX 1,700
+0.2%
GBX 2,015
+18.5%
+3.6%£5.83B£3.13B2,358.3315,156High Trading Volume
WEIR
The Weir Group
1.4655 of 5 stars
GBX 2,102
flat
GBX 2,416.67
+15.0%
+15.0%£5.46B£2.54B2,475.2912,391
SPX
Spirax-Sarco Engineering
2.146 of 5 stars
GBX 6,500
+0.5%
GBX 8,672.50
+33.4%
-29.7%£4.79B£1.66B2,486.5410,000Positive News
High Trading Volume
IMI
IMI
1.6004 of 5 stars
GBX 1,702
+0.4%
GBX 1,983.33
+16.5%
+8.2%£4.37B£2.21B1,750.5210,000
BOY
Bodycote
2.9119 of 5 stars
GBX 607
-0.2%
GBX 812.50
+33.9%
+0.1%£1.11B£781.40M1,842.424,833News Coverage
Gap Down
MGAM
Morgan Advanced Materials
2.0816 of 5 stars
GBX 255.33
-0.5%
GBX 318.33
+24.7%
+3.0%£726.56M£1.13B1,064.588,694News Coverage
GDWN
Goodwin
N/AGBX 6,759
+2.7%
N/A+26.6%£507.60M£191.26M2,937.501,144
ITM
ITM Power
2.8496 of 5 stars
GBX 34.17
+0.2%
GBX 74.50
+118.0%
-41.8%£210.71M£16.51M-852.50359
AVG
Avingtrans
N/AGBX 407
+1.8%
N/A+4.4%£134.68M£136.62M3,597.36732Positive News

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This page (LON:ROR) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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