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 companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Rotork has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Melrose Industries has a beta of 1.59, indicating that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Rotork has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Melrose Industries.
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.
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.
In the previous week, Rotork and Rotork both had 1 articles in the media. Rotork's average media sentiment score of 1.05 equaled Melrose Industries'average media sentiment score.
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 currently has a consensus price target of GBX 336.67, indicating a potential upside of 0.56%. Melrose Industries has a consensus price target of GBX 590, indicating a potential downside of 4.28%. Given Rotork's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Rotork is more favorable than Melrose Industries.
72.1% of Rotork shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.9% of Melrose Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Rotork shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Melrose Industries shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Rotork and Melrose Industries tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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