ITM vs. CGS, GDWN, AVG, RNO, MPAC, MGAM, GEC, SHI, CHRT, and RST
Should you be buying ITM Power stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ITM Power include Castings (CGS), Goodwin (GDWN), Avingtrans (AVG), Renold (RNO), Mpac Group (MPAC), Morgan Advanced Materials (MGAM), General Electric (GEC), SIG (SHI), Cohort (CHRT), and Restore (RST). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Castings (LON:CGS) and ITM Power (LON:ITM) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and community ranking.
Castings has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ITM Power has a beta of 1.77, suggesting that its share price is 77% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Castings currently has a consensus target price of GBX 550, indicating a potential upside of 51.03%. Given ITM Power's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Castings is more favorable than ITM Power.
55.5% of Castings shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.1% of ITM Power shares are held by institutional investors. 21.7% of Castings shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 32.4% of ITM Power shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, ITM Power had 1 more articles in the media than Castings. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for ITM Power and 3 mentions for Castings. Castings' average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat ITM Power's score of 0.18 indicating that ITM Power is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
Castings has a net margin of 6.81% compared to Castings' net margin of 0.00%. ITM Power's return on equity of 12.26% beat Castings' return on equity.
ITM Power received 62 more outperform votes than Castings when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.44% of users gave Castings an outperform vote while only 67.18% of users gave ITM Power an outperform vote.
Summary
Castings beats ITM Power on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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