MGAM vs. ROR, BOY, GDWN, ITM, CGS, RNO, AVG, LOAD, MPAC, and PHE
Should you be buying Morgan Advanced Materials stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Morgan Advanced Materials include Rotork (ROR), Bodycote (BOY), Goodwin (GDWN), ITM Power (ITM), Castings (CGS), Renold (RNO), Avingtrans (AVG), Crestchic (LOAD), Mpac Group (MPAC), and PowerHouse Energy Group (PHE). These companies are all part of the "specialty industrial machinery" industry.
Rotork (LON:ROR) and Morgan Advanced Materials (LON:MGAM) are both industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, risk, dividends and earnings.
In the previous week, Rotork had 1 more articles in the media than Morgan Advanced Materials. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Rotork and 0 mentions for Morgan Advanced Materials. Morgan Advanced Materials' average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Rotork's score of 0.00 indicating that Rotork is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Rotork pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Morgan Advanced Materials pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. 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. Morgan Advanced Materials pays out 7,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Rotork has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Morgan Advanced Materials. Morgan Advanced Materials 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 0.99, suggesting that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Morgan Advanced Materials has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Rotork has a net margin of 15.73% compared to Rotork's net margin of 4.24%. Morgan Advanced Materials' return on equity of 18.72% beat Rotork's return on equity.
Rotork presently has a consensus target price of GBX 336.67, suggesting a potential upside of 0.44%. Morgan Advanced Materials has a consensus target price of GBX 315, suggesting a potential downside of 0.47%. Given Morgan Advanced Materials' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Rotork is more favorable than Morgan Advanced Materials.
72.1% of Rotork shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.7% of Morgan Advanced Materials shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Rotork shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Morgan Advanced Materials shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Morgan Advanced Materials received 130 more outperform votes than Rotork when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.71% of users gave Morgan Advanced Materials an outperform vote while only 44.29% of users gave Rotork an outperform vote.
Summary
Rotork beats Morgan Advanced Materials on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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