MGAM vs. GEC, GDWN, BOY, ITM, ROR, FAN, JHD, REDD, KLR, and WIN
Should you be buying Morgan Advanced Materials stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Morgan Advanced Materials include General Electric (GEC), Goodwin (GDWN), Bodycote (BOY), ITM Power (ITM), Rotork (ROR), Volution Group (FAN), James Halstead (JHD), Redde Northgate (REDD), Keller Group (KLR), and Wincanton (WIN). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Morgan Advanced Materials (LON:MGAM) and General Electric (LON:GEC) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and earnings.
84.7% of Morgan Advanced Materials shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.0% of General Electric shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Morgan Advanced Materials shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of General Electric shares are owned 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.
In the previous week, General Electric had 16 more articles in the media than Morgan Advanced Materials. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for General Electric and 0 mentions for Morgan Advanced Materials. General Electric's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Morgan Advanced Materials' score of 0.00 indicating that General Electric is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Morgan Advanced Materials has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, General Electric has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Morgan Advanced Materials currently has a consensus price target of GBX 315, indicating a potential upside of 4.50%. Given Morgan Advanced Materials' higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Morgan Advanced Materials is more favorable than General Electric.
Morgan Advanced Materials received 432 more outperform votes than General Electric when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.71% of users gave Morgan Advanced Materials an outperform vote while only 62.77% of users gave General Electric an outperform vote.
General Electric has a net margin of 13.95% compared to Morgan Advanced Materials' net margin of 4.24%. General Electric's return on equity of 28.44% beat Morgan Advanced Materials' return on equity.
Morgan Advanced Materials pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. General Electric pays an annual dividend of GBX 112 per share and has a dividend yield of 106.7%. Morgan Advanced Materials pays out 7,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. General Electric pays out 1,403.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. General Electric is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
General Electric has higher revenue and earnings than Morgan Advanced Materials. General Electric is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Morgan Advanced Materials, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Morgan Advanced Materials and General Electric tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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