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Bodycote (BOY) Competitors

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GBX 627 -9.50 (-1.49%)
As of 08/1/2025 12:31 PM Eastern

BOY vs. COB, BUR, BCG, TRST, DFS, MCB, SHG, FIF, IES, and RM

Should you be buying Bodycote stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bodycote include Cobham (COB), Burford Capital (BUR), Baltic Classifieds Group (BCG), Trustpilot Group (TRST), DFS Furniture (DFS), McBride (MCB), Shanta Gold (SHG), Finsbury Food Group (FIF), Invinity Energy Systems (IES), and RM (RM). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.

Bodycote vs. Its Competitors

Cobham (LON:COB) and Bodycote (LON:BOY) are both industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability and valuation.

Bodycote has a consensus target price of GBX 758.33, indicating a potential upside of 20.95%. Given Bodycote's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Bodycote is more favorable than Cobham.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Cobham
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Bodycote
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Bodycote has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Cobham. Cobham is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bodycote, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Cobham£1.97B0.00N/A-£1.90N/A
Bodycote£739.54M1.52£59.25M£33.2318.87

In the previous week, Bodycote had 8 more articles in the media than Cobham. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Bodycote and 6 mentions for Cobham. Bodycote's average media sentiment score of 0.41 beat Cobham's score of 0.21 indicating that Bodycote is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Cobham
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Bodycote
1 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

77.7% of Bodycote shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Bodycote 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.

Bodycote has a net margin of 8.01% compared to Cobham's net margin of 0.00%. Bodycote's return on equity of 8.14% beat Cobham's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
CobhamN/A N/A N/A
Bodycote 8.01%8.14%6.41%

Summary

Bodycote beats Cobham on 12 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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BOY vs. The Competition

MetricBodycoteSpecialty Industrial Machinery IndustryIndustrials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£1.12B£6.02B£7.60B£3.03B
Dividend Yield3.45%2.74%4.56%5.02%
P/E Ratio18.8716.0625.22176.75
Price / Sales1.52266.3698.63264,362.43
Price / Cash31.059.3327.7627.97
Price / Book1.593.784.344.53
Net Income£59.25M£298.37M£792.92M£5.90B
7 Day Performance7.73%0.30%-1.88%12.57%
1 Month Performance6.72%4.55%2.31%6.09%
1 Year Performance-2.34%18.35%29.36%71.59%

Bodycote Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BOY
Bodycote
2.4807 of 5 stars
GBX 627
-1.5%
GBX 758.33
+20.9%
-6.8%£1.12B£739.54M18.874,833Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
COB
Cobham
N/AN/AN/AN/A£3.96B£1.97B-86.5810,898News Coverage
BUR
Burford Capital
2.7353 of 5 stars
GBX 992
-1.9%
GBX 1,600
+61.3%
-12.5%£2.73B£299.55M17.75140Gap Up
BCG
Baltic Classifieds Group
0.2449 of 5 stars
GBX 351.50
-2.0%
GBX 350
-0.4%
+31.0%£2.01B£92.71M52.69130
TRST
Trustpilot Group
N/AGBX 255
-2.1%
GBX 310
+21.6%
+16.8%£1.34B£222.55M84.53820Gap Up
DFS
DFS Furniture
2.6128 of 5 stars
GBX 170
-1.7%
GBX 233
+37.1%
+32.3%£391.76M£964.48M-91.0320,200
MCB
McBride
N/AGBX 125.02
+0.7%
N/A-4.5%£214.30M£930.83M6.39240Trending News
SHG
Shanta Gold
N/AN/AN/AN/A£154.98M£150.50M1,476.00190High Trading Volume
FIF
Finsbury Food Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£143.42M£413.74M1,375.00206
IES
Invinity Energy Systems
2.829 of 5 stars
GBX 22.75
-7.1%
GBX 40
+75.8%
-3.1%£99.50M£15.88M-2.62140News Coverage
Gap Down
RM
RM
N/AGBX 104
flat
N/A+24.1%£87.85M£189.50M-1.891,990High Trading Volume

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