SPX vs. SMIN, MRO, WEIR, IMI, ROR, ITRK, HLMA, IAG, DPLM, and EZJ
Should you be buying Spirax-Sarco Engineering stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Spirax-Sarco Engineering include Smiths Group (SMIN), Melrose Industries (MRO), The Weir Group (WEIR), IMI (IMI), Rotork (ROR), Intertek Group (ITRK), Halma (HLMA), International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG), Diploma (DPLM), and easyJet (EZJ). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Spirax-Sarco Engineering (LON:SPX) and Smiths Group (LON:SMIN) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.
Spirax-Sarco Engineering has a net margin of 10.91% compared to Smiths Group's net margin of 7.65%. Spirax-Sarco Engineering's return on equity of 15.81% beat Smiths Group's return on equity.
Spirax-Sarco Engineering has a beta of 0.69, meaning that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Smiths Group has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
81.3% of Spirax-Sarco Engineering shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.7% of Smiths Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Spirax-Sarco Engineering shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Smiths Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Spirax-Sarco Engineering pays an annual dividend of GBX 160 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Smiths Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 42 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. 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. Smiths Group pays out 6,363.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Smiths Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Spirax-Sarco Engineering currently has a consensus target price of £101.50, suggesting a potential upside of 13.66%. Smiths Group has a consensus target price of GBX 1,846.67, suggesting a potential upside of 15.42%. Given Smiths Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Smiths Group is more favorable than Spirax-Sarco Engineering.
Smiths Group has higher revenue and earnings than Spirax-Sarco Engineering. Smiths Group 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.
Smiths Group received 69 more outperform votes than Spirax-Sarco Engineering when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.38% of users gave Smiths Group an outperform vote while only 54.81% of users gave Spirax-Sarco Engineering an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Smiths Group had 4 more articles in the media than Spirax-Sarco Engineering. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Smiths Group and 0 mentions for Spirax-Sarco Engineering. Smiths Group's average media sentiment score of 0.39 beat Spirax-Sarco Engineering's score of 0.00 indicating that Smiths Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Smiths Group beats Spirax-Sarco Engineering on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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