MRK vs. GPH, IGC, AURA, ARTL, PHAR, ORPH, AMPH, ANW, KOD, and PHE
Should you be buying Marks Electrical Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Marks Electrical Group include Global Ports (GPH), India Capital Growth (IGC), Aura Energy (AURA), Alpha Real Trust (ARTL), Pharos Energy (PHAR), Open Orphan (ORPH), Aggregated Micro Power (AMPH), Aberdeen New Thai Investment Trust (ANW), Kodal Minerals (KOD), and PowerHouse Energy Group (PHE). These companies are all part of the "pharmaceutical products" industry.
Marks Electrical Group vs. Its Competitors
Marks Electrical Group (LON:MRK) and Global Ports (LON:GPH) are both small-cap pharmaceutical products companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
Marks Electrical Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 51, indicating a potential upside of 0.99%. Given Marks Electrical Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Marks Electrical Group is more favorable than Global Ports.
Marks Electrical Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.01 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Global Ports pays an annual dividend of GBX 37 per share. Marks Electrical Group pays out -69.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Global Ports pays out 370,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Marks Electrical Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
10.1% of Marks Electrical Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.3% of Global Ports shares are owned by institutional investors. 75.2% of Marks Electrical Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 78.0% of Global Ports shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Global Ports has a net margin of 0.46% compared to Marks Electrical Group's net margin of 0.37%. Global Ports' return on equity of 34.36% beat Marks Electrical Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Marks Electrical Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Global Ports'average media sentiment score.
Marks Electrical Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Global Ports. Marks Electrical Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Global Ports, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Marks Electrical Group has a beta of 0.73, indicating that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Global Ports has a beta of 1.86, indicating that its stock price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Global Ports beats Marks Electrical Group on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:MRK) was last updated on 10/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
