BOY vs. GEC, MGAM, GDWN, ROR, IMI, WEIR, SMS, CKN, HAS, and PAGE
Should you be buying Bodycote stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bodycote include General Electric (GEC), Morgan Advanced Materials (MGAM), Goodwin (GDWN), Rotork (ROR), IMI (IMI), The Weir Group (WEIR), Smart Metering Systems (SMS), Clarkson (CKN), Hays (HAS), and PageGroup (PAGE). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Bodycote (LON:BOY) and General Electric (LON:GEC) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, valuation and community ranking.
Bodycote pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. General Electric pays an annual dividend of GBX 112 per share and has a dividend yield of 106.7%. Bodycote pays out 5,111.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. General Electric pays out 1,403.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. General Electric is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
General Electric has higher revenue and earnings than Bodycote. General Electric is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bodycote, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bodycote presently has a consensus target price of GBX 670, suggesting a potential downside of 0.30%. Given Bodycote's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Bodycote is more favorable than General Electric.
In the previous week, General Electric had 15 more articles in the media than Bodycote. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for General Electric and 1 mentions for Bodycote. Bodycote's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat General Electric's score of 0.56 indicating that Bodycote is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Bodycote has a beta of 1.18, indicating that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, General Electric has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Bodycote received 501 more outperform votes than General Electric when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.62% of users gave Bodycote an outperform vote while only 62.77% of users gave General Electric an outperform vote.
General Electric has a net margin of 13.95% compared to Bodycote's net margin of 10.67%. General Electric's return on equity of 28.44% beat Bodycote's return on equity.
69.0% of Bodycote shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.0% of General Electric shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Bodycote shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of General Electric shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
General Electric beats Bodycote on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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