HLMA vs. MRO, IAG, ITRK, SPX, RTO, SMIN, WEIR, IMI, DPLM, and EZJ
Should you be buying Halma stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Halma include Melrose Industries (MRO), International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG), Intertek Group (ITRK), Spirax-Sarco Engineering (SPX), Rentokil Initial (RTO), Smiths Group (SMIN), The Weir Group (WEIR), IMI (IMI), Diploma (DPLM), and easyJet (EZJ). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Halma (LON:HLMA) and Melrose Industries (LON:MRO) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, dividends and institutional ownership.
Halma presently has a consensus price target of GBX 2,240, indicating a potential downside of 5.41%. Melrose Industries has a consensus price target of GBX 590, indicating a potential downside of 12.33%. Given Halma's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Halma is more favorable than Melrose Industries.
Halma pays an annual dividend of GBX 21 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Melrose Industries pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Halma pays out 3,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Melrose Industries pays out -25,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Halma has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Melrose Industries has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Melrose Industries had 1 more articles in the media than Halma. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Melrose Industries and 1 mentions for Halma. Halma's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Melrose Industries' score of -0.36 indicating that Halma is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Halma has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Melrose Industries. Melrose Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Halma, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Halma has a net margin of 12.35% compared to Melrose Industries' net margin of -30.42%. Halma's return on equity of 14.52% beat Melrose Industries' return on equity.
60.0% of Halma shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.1% of Melrose Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of Halma shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Melrose Industries shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Melrose Industries received 588 more outperform votes than Halma when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.69% of users gave Melrose Industries an outperform vote while only 57.20% of users gave Halma an outperform vote.
Summary
Halma and Melrose Industries tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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