MRO vs. SPX, SMIN, WEIR, IMI, ROR, HLMA, IAG, ITRK, RTO, and DPLM
Should you be buying Melrose Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Melrose Industries include Spirax-Sarco Engineering (SPX), Smiths Group (SMIN), The Weir Group (WEIR), IMI (IMI), Rotork (ROR), Halma (HLMA), International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG), Intertek Group (ITRK), Rentokil Initial (RTO), and Diploma (DPLM). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Melrose Industries (LON:MRO) and Spirax-Sarco Engineering (LON:SPX) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, dividends and risk.
Melrose Industries has a beta of 1.59, meaning that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Spirax-Sarco Engineering has a beta of 0.69, meaning that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Spirax-Sarco Engineering has a net margin of 10.91% compared to Melrose Industries' net margin of -30.42%. Spirax-Sarco Engineering's return on equity of 15.81% beat Melrose Industries' return on equity.
Melrose Industries received 619 more outperform votes than Spirax-Sarco Engineering when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.69% of users gave Melrose Industries an outperform vote while only 54.81% of users gave Spirax-Sarco Engineering an outperform vote.
81.9% of Melrose Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.4% of Spirax-Sarco Engineering shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.0% of Melrose Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Spirax-Sarco Engineering shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Melrose Industries presently has a consensus price target of GBX 590, indicating a potential downside of 2.25%. Spirax-Sarco Engineering has a consensus price target of £101.50, indicating a potential upside of 15.54%. Given Spirax-Sarco Engineering's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Spirax-Sarco Engineering is more favorable than Melrose Industries.
Melrose Industries pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Spirax-Sarco Engineering pays an annual dividend of GBX 160 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Melrose Industries pays out -25,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Spirax-Sarco Engineering pays out 6,425.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
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.
In the previous week, Melrose Industries and Melrose Industries both had 1 articles in the media. Spirax-Sarco Engineering's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Melrose Industries' score of 0.30 indicating that Spirax-Sarco Engineering is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Spirax-Sarco Engineering beats Melrose Industries on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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