WEIR vs. SMIN, MRO, IMI, SPX, ROR, BOY, MGAM, GDWN, ITM, and LOAD
Should you be buying The Weir Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of The Weir Group include Smiths Group (SMIN), Melrose Industries (MRO), IMI (IMI), Spirax-Sarco Engineering (SPX), Rotork (ROR), 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.
The Weir Group vs.
The Weir Group (LON:WEIR) and Smiths Group (LON:SMIN) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and media sentiment.
The Weir Group has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Smiths Group has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, The Weir Group had 6 more articles in the media than Smiths Group. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for The Weir Group and 2 mentions for Smiths Group. The Weir Group's average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat Smiths Group's score of 0.00 indicating that The Weir Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
The Weir Group has a net margin of 8.60% compared to Smiths Group's net margin of 7.98%. The Weir Group's return on equity of 12.79% beat Smiths Group's return on equity.
The Weir Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 2,483.33, indicating a potential upside of 15.61%. Smiths Group has a consensus target price of GBX 2,015, indicating a potential upside of 12.32%. Given The Weir Group's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe The Weir Group is more favorable than Smiths Group.
67.4% of The Weir Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.2% of Smiths Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of The Weir Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Smiths Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
The Weir Group received 210 more outperform votes than Smiths Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.48% of users gave Smiths Group an outperform vote while only 59.62% of users gave The Weir Group an outperform vote.
The Weir Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 39 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Smiths Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 44 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. The Weir Group pays out 45.8% 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.
Smiths Group has higher revenue and earnings than The Weir Group. Smiths Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than The Weir Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
The Weir Group beats Smiths Group on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:WEIR) was last updated on 4/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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