IMI vs. MRO, SPX, SMIN, WEIR, ROR, BOY, MGAM, GDWN, ITM, and CGS
Should you be buying IMI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IMI include Melrose Industries (MRO), Spirax-Sarco Engineering (SPX), Smiths Group (SMIN), The Weir Group (WEIR), Rotork (ROR), Bodycote (BOY), Morgan Advanced Materials (MGAM), Goodwin (GDWN), ITM Power (ITM), and Castings (CGS). These companies are all part of the "specialty industrial machinery" industry.
IMI (LON:IMI) and Melrose Industries (LON:MRO) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, valuation and risk.
IMI has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Melrose Industries has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
IMI pays an annual dividend of GBX 28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Melrose Industries pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. IMI pays out 3,010.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
IMI has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Melrose Industries.
In the previous week, IMI had 11 more articles in the media than Melrose Industries. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for IMI and 2 mentions for Melrose Industries. IMI's average media sentiment score of 0.12 beat Melrose Industries' score of 0.00 indicating that IMI is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Melrose Industries received 436 more outperform votes than IMI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.70% of users gave Melrose Industries an outperform vote while only 59.58% of users gave IMI an outperform vote.
76.1% of IMI shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.9% of Melrose Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of IMI shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Melrose Industries shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
IMI has a net margin of 10.81% compared to Melrose Industries' net margin of -30.42%. IMI's return on equity of 24.52% beat Melrose Industries' return on equity.
IMI currently has a consensus target price of GBX 1,983.33, indicating a potential upside of 6.75%. Melrose Industries has a consensus target price of GBX 645, indicating a potential upside of 13.48%. Given Melrose Industries' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Melrose Industries is more favorable than IMI.
Summary
IMI beats Melrose Industries on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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