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.
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.
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.
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.
Summary
Bodycote beats Cobham on 12 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:BOY) was last updated on 8/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff