ITRK vs. RTO, SRP, IAG, MRO, HLMA, SPX, SMIN, WEIR, DPLM, and IMI
Should you be buying Intertek Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Intertek Group include Rentokil Initial (RTO), Serco Group (SRP), International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG), Melrose Industries (MRO), Halma (HLMA), Spirax-Sarco Engineering (SPX), Smiths Group (SMIN), The Weir Group (WEIR), Diploma (DPLM), and IMI (IMI). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Rentokil Initial (LON:RTO) and Intertek Group (LON:ITRK) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability, media sentiment and community ranking.
Rentokil Initial currently has a consensus price target of GBX 636.80, suggesting a potential upside of 49.48%. Intertek Group has a consensus price target of GBX 4,959.17, suggesting a potential downside of 0.92%. Given Intertek Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Rentokil Initial is more favorable than Intertek Group.
Rentokil Initial pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Intertek Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 112 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Rentokil Initial pays out 6,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Intertek Group pays out 6,120.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
90.0% of Rentokil Initial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.4% of Intertek Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Rentokil Initial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Intertek Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Rentokil Initial has higher revenue and earnings than Intertek Group. Intertek Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rentokil Initial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Rentokil Initial has a beta of 0.54, indicating that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intertek Group has a beta of 0.64, indicating that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Rentokil Initial had 3 more articles in the media than Intertek Group. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Rentokil Initial and 3 mentions for Intertek Group. Rentokil Initial's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Intertek Group's score of 0.21 indicating that Intertek Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Rentokil Initial received 234 more outperform votes than Intertek Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.66% of users gave Rentokil Initial an outperform vote while only 48.57% of users gave Intertek Group an outperform vote.
Intertek Group has a net margin of 8.93% compared to Intertek Group's net margin of 7.09%. Rentokil Initial's return on equity of 23.76% beat Intertek Group's return on equity.
Summary
Rentokil Initial beats Intertek Group on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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