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Should you be buying Spirax-Sarco Engineering stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Spirax-Sarco Engineering include Melrose Industries (MRO), Smiths Group (SMIN), The Weir Group (WEIR), IMI (IMI), Rotork (ROR), 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.
Spirax-Sarco Engineering vs.
Melrose Industries (LON:MRO) and Spirax-Sarco Engineering (LON:SPX) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, risk, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends and community ranking.
Spirax-Sarco Engineering has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Melrose Industries. Melrose Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Spirax-Sarco Engineering, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Spirax-Sarco Engineering has a net margin of 11.57% compared to Melrose Industries' net margin of -1.13%. Spirax-Sarco Engineering's return on equity of 16.58% beat Melrose Industries' return on equity.
Melrose Industries presently has a consensus price target of GBX 640, suggesting a potential upside of 30.28%. Spirax-Sarco Engineering has a consensus price target of GBX 8,672.50, suggesting a potential upside of 19.38%. Given Melrose Industries' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Melrose Industries is more favorable than Spirax-Sarco Engineering.
82.7% of Melrose Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.4% of Spirax-Sarco Engineering shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Melrose Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Spirax-Sarco Engineering shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Melrose Industries pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Spirax-Sarco Engineering pays an annual dividend of GBX 162 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Melrose Industries pays out -202.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Spirax-Sarco Engineering pays out 62.1% 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.
Melrose Industries has a beta of 1.51, suggesting that its share price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Spirax-Sarco Engineering has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Melrose Industries had 25 more articles in the media than Spirax-Sarco Engineering. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Melrose Industries and 3 mentions for Spirax-Sarco Engineering. Spirax-Sarco Engineering's average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat Melrose Industries' score of 0.30 indicating that Spirax-Sarco Engineering is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Melrose Industries received 623 more outperform votes than Spirax-Sarco Engineering when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.60% of users gave Melrose Industries an outperform vote while only 54.34% of users gave Spirax-Sarco Engineering an outperform vote.
Summary
Melrose Industries beats Spirax-Sarco Engineering on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:SPX) was last updated on 3/9/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
