ITM vs. BOY, MGAM, GDWN, CGS, AVG, LOAD, RNO, 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), Morgan Advanced Materials (MGAM), Goodwin (GDWN), Castings (CGS), Avingtrans (AVG), Crestchic (LOAD), Renold (RNO), 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 (LON:ITM) and Bodycote (LON:BOY) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability and risk.
ITM Power presently has a consensus price target of GBX 90, indicating a potential upside of 67.44%. Bodycote has a consensus price target of GBX 845, indicating a potential upside of 17.52%. Given ITM Power's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe ITM Power is more favorable than Bodycote.
In the previous week, ITM Power had 5 more articles in the media than Bodycote. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for ITM Power and 1 mentions for Bodycote. Bodycote's average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat ITM Power's score of 0.00 indicating that Bodycote is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Bodycote received 387 more outperform votes than ITM Power when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.57% of users gave Bodycote an outperform vote while only 66.92% of users gave ITM Power an outperform vote.
Bodycote has a net margin of 10.67% compared to ITM Power's net margin of 0.00%. Bodycote's return on equity of 11.03% beat ITM Power's return on equity.
ITM Power has a beta of 1.78, meaning that its share price is 78% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bodycote has a beta of 1.19, meaning that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
29.6% of ITM Power shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.2% of Bodycote shares are held by institutional investors. 32.4% of ITM Power shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Bodycote shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Bodycote beats ITM Power on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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