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Castings (CGS) Competitors

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GBX 260 -28.00 (-9.72%)
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CGS vs. ITM, LOAD, AVG, MPAC, RNO, PHE, CPH2, XSG, GPL, and SIXH

Should you be buying Castings stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Castings include ITM Power (ITM), Crestchic (LOAD), Avingtrans (AVG), Mpac Group (MPAC), Renold (RNO), PowerHouse Energy Group (PHE), Clean Power Hydrogen (CPH2), Xeros Technology Group (XSG), Graft Polymer (GPL), and The 600 Group (SIXH). These companies are all part of the "specialty industrial machinery" industry.

Castings vs.

Castings (LON:CGS) and ITM Power (LON:ITM) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, earnings, community ranking, valuation and media sentiment.

Castings has higher revenue and earnings than ITM Power. ITM Power is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Castings, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Castings£225.56M0.51£16.81M£38.016.84
ITM Power£16.67M12.51-£27.50M-£4.37-7.66

Castings has a beta of 0.6, meaning that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ITM Power has a beta of 2.03, meaning that its stock price is 103% more volatile than the S&P 500.

51.7% of Castings shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.3% of ITM Power shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.4% of Castings shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 48.3% of ITM Power shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Castings has a net margin of 7.45% compared to ITM Power's net margin of -164.90%. Castings' return on equity of 12.83% beat ITM Power's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Castings7.45% 12.83% 7.09%
ITM Power -164.90%-9.97%-5.81%

Castings presently has a consensus price target of GBX 332.50, suggesting a potential upside of 27.88%. ITM Power has a consensus price target of GBX 69.75, suggesting a potential upside of 108.33%. Given ITM Power's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe ITM Power is more favorable than Castings.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Castings
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
ITM Power
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

In the previous week, ITM Power had 1 more articles in the media than Castings. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for ITM Power and 4 mentions for Castings. ITM Power's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Castings' score of 0.00 indicating that ITM Power is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Castings
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
ITM Power
2 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

ITM Power received 59 more outperform votes than Castings when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.34% of users gave Castings an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave ITM Power an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
CastingsOutperform Votes
117
71.34%
Underperform Votes
47
28.66%
ITM PowerOutperform Votes
176
66.67%
Underperform Votes
88
33.33%

Summary

Castings beats ITM Power on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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CGS vs. The Competition

MetricCastingsSpecialty Industrial Machinery IndustryIndustrials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£113.98M£6.36B£5.10B£2.64B
Dividend Yield8.79%2.54%3.95%5.03%
P/E Ratio6.8414.6321.83159.58
Price / Sales0.51307.75190.85309,237.93
Price / Cash5.969.1830.0027.84
Price / Book0.852.953.845.23
Net Income£16.81M£305.34M£1.08B£5.67B
7 Day Performance-10.12%2.41%2.23%3.67%
1 Month Performance-0.76%3.96%3.83%3.89%
1 Year Performance-24.64%13.69%27.79%149.22%

Castings Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CGS
Castings
3.5133 of 5 stars
GBX 260
-9.7%
GBX 332.50
+27.9%
-16.5%£113.98M£225.56M6.841,251Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Positive News
High Trading Volume
ITM
ITM Power
3.0661 of 5 stars
GBX 36.05
-2.0%
GBX 69.75
+93.5%
-45.7%£222.32M£16.51M-901.28359News Coverage
Positive News
LOAD
Crestchic
N/AN/AN/AN/A£121.14M£34.97M2,347.06N/A
AVG
Avingtrans
N/AGBX 359.30
-1.2%
N/A+2.4%£118.89M£136.62M3,266.36732
MPAC
Mpac Group
N/AGBX 521
-0.4%
N/A+44.6%£112.17M£121.40M1,736.67500
RNO
Renold
N/AGBX 50.42
-1.9%
N/A+5.2%£99.75M£241.40M720.291,824News Coverage
Gap Up
PHE
PowerHouse Energy Group
N/AGBX 1
+6.4%
N/A+160.3%£42M£680,842.00-138.004
CPH2
Clean Power Hydrogen
N/AGBX 7.50
+2.0%
N/A-13.5%£20.23M£28,000.00-375.0055Positive News
XSG
Xeros Technology Group
N/AGBX 0.80
flat
N/A-63.9%£4.17M£173,000.00-40.0032News Coverage
GPL
Graft Polymer
N/AGBX 0.16
-6.9%
N/AN/A£3.75M£480,429.00-8.157
SIXH
The 600 Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£3.39M£33.80M-265.00123

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This page (LON:CGS) was last updated on 2/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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