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Bodycote (BOY) Competitors

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GBX 677 +11.50 (+1.73%)
As of 10/24/2025 12:25 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

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

Bodycote currently has a consensus target price of GBX 811.67, suggesting a potential upside of 19.89%. Given Bodycote's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Bodycote is more favorable than Cobham.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Bodycote
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.75
Cobham
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

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
Bodycote8.01% 8.14% 6.41%
Cobham N/A N/A N/A

69.8% of Bodycote shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Bodycote shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Cobham had 2 more articles in the media than Bodycote. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Cobham and 0 mentions for Bodycote. Bodycote's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Cobham's score of 0.32 indicating that Bodycote is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Bodycote Positive
Cobham Neutral

Bodycote has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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
Bodycote£727.10M1.63£59.25M£16.0042.31
Cobham£1.97B0.00N/A-£1.90N/A

Summary

Bodycote beats Cobham on 11 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

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BOY vs. The Competition

MetricBodycoteSpecialty Industrial Machinery IndustryIndustrials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£1.15B£7.13B£7.98B£2.66B
Dividend Yield3.48%2.76%4.57%5.35%
P/E Ratio42.3127.4525.30400.09
Price / Sales1.6314,134.351,258.2598,316.31
Price / Cash31.059.3328.0027.90
Price / Book1.712.994.997.26
Net Income£59.25M£298.37M£790.14M£5.88B
7 Day Performance4.96%1.42%1.87%1.07%
1 Month Performance6.64%2.01%3.19%1.72%
1 Year PerformanceN/A21.67%31.01%111.52%

Bodycote Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BOY
Bodycote
2.1082 of 5 stars
GBX 677
+1.7%
GBX 811.67
+19.9%
+23.8%£1.15B£727.10M42.314,833Gap Up
COB
Cobham
N/AN/AN/AN/A£3.96B£1.97B-86.5810,898
BUR
Burford Capital
2.8945 of 5 stars
GBX 842.50
+0.5%
GBX 1,600
+89.9%
-25.4%£1.84B£444.57M15.07140News Coverage
Gap Down
BCG
Baltic Classifieds Group
2.0391 of 5 stars
GBX 301.50
-1.5%
GBX 361
+19.7%
-4.3%£1.45B£82.81M3,241.94130
TRST
Trustpilot Group
2.6404 of 5 stars
GBX 217
-1.4%
GBX 340.75
+57.0%
-10.7%£883.25M£233.80M-183.12820News Coverage
Insider Trade
DFS
DFS Furniture
3.5173 of 5 stars
GBX 159
-0.6%
GBX 220.50
+38.7%
+18.1%£366.79M£1.03B1,543.6920,200Gap Up
High Trading Volume
MCB
McBride
2.9015 of 5 stars
GBX 123
-1.6%
GBX 190
+54.5%
+12.5%£209.92M£926.50M661.29240Trending News
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
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
1.9959 of 5 stars
GBX 20.75
-1.2%
GBX 40
+92.8%
+67.9%£118.02M£3.63M-471.59140Positive News
High Trading Volume
RM
RM
N/AGBX 102
+3.0%
N/A+37.9%£86.16M£189.50M-1.851,990High Trading Volume

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This page (LON:BOY) was last updated on 10/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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