ITM vs. BOY, GDWN, MGAM, RNO, AVG, CGS, LOAD, MPAC, PHE, and CPH2
Should you be buying ITM Power stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ITM Power include Bodycote (BOY), Goodwin (GDWN), Morgan Advanced Materials (MGAM), Renold (RNO), Avingtrans (AVG), Castings (CGS), Crestchic (LOAD), Mpac Group (MPAC), PowerHouse Energy Group (PHE), and Clean Power Hydrogen (CPH2). These companies are all part of the "specialty industrial machinery" industry.
ITM Power vs. Its Competitors
Bodycote (LON:BOY) and ITM Power (LON:ITM) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Bodycote currently has a consensus target price of GBX 758.33, suggesting a potential upside of 16.58%. ITM Power has a consensus target price of GBX 76.67, suggesting a potential upside of 9.89%. Given Bodycote's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Bodycote is more favorable than ITM Power.
Bodycote has a beta of 1.18, meaning that its stock price is 18% more 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.
77.7% of Bodycote shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.3% of ITM Power shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Bodycote shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 48.3% of ITM Power shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Bodycote has a net margin of 8.01% compared to ITM Power's net margin of -164.90%. Bodycote's return on equity of 8.14% beat ITM Power's return on equity.
In the previous week, ITM Power had 34 more articles in the media than Bodycote. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for ITM Power and 1 mentions for Bodycote. Bodycote's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat ITM Power's score of 0.36 indicating that Bodycote is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Bodycote has higher revenue and earnings than ITM Power. ITM Power is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bodycote, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Bodycote beats ITM Power on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:ITM) was last updated on 8/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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