ROR vs. MRO, SPX, SMIN, WEIR, IMI, BOY, MGAM, GDWN, ITM, and CGS
Should you be buying Rotork stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rotork include Melrose Industries (MRO), Spirax-Sarco Engineering (SPX), Smiths Group (SMIN), The Weir Group (WEIR), IMI (IMI), Bodycote (BOY), Morgan Advanced Materials (MGAM), Goodwin (GDWN), ITM Power (ITM), and Castings (CGS). These companies are all part of the "specialty industrial machinery" industry.
Rotork (LON:ROR) and Melrose Industries (LON:MRO) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership and risk.
72.1% of Rotork shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.9% of Melrose Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Rotork shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Melrose Industries 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 2.1%. Melrose Industries pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Rotork pays out 5,384.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Rotork currently has a consensus target price of GBX 336.67, suggesting a potential downside of 0.51%. Melrose Industries has a consensus target price of GBX 590, suggesting a potential downside of 4.19%. Given Rotork's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Rotork is more favorable than Melrose Industries.
In the previous week, Melrose Industries had 1 more articles in the media than Rotork. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Melrose Industries and 1 mentions for Rotork. Rotork's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Melrose Industries' score of 0.84 indicating that Rotork is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Rotork has a net margin of 15.73% compared to Melrose Industries' net margin of -30.42%. Rotork's return on equity of 18.72% beat Melrose Industries' return on equity.
Rotork has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Melrose Industries.
Rotork has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Melrose Industries has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Melrose Industries received 640 more outperform votes than Rotork when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.69% of users gave Melrose Industries an outperform vote while only 44.29% of users gave Rotork an outperform vote.
Summary
Rotork and Melrose Industries tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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