MRO vs. BPT, GPOR, KOS, DEC, IMO, GTE, STR, D4H, MUR, and RLD
Should you be buying Melrose Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Melrose Industries include Bridgepoint Group (BPT), Great Portland Estates (GPOR), Kosmos Energy (KOS), Diversified Energy (DEC), IMImobile (IMO), Gran Tierra Energy (GTE), Stride Gaming (STR), Downing FOUR VCT (D4H), Murgitroyd Group (MUR), and Richland Resources Ltd (RLD.L) (RLD). These companies are all part of the "petroleum and natural gas" industry.
Melrose Industries vs.
Bridgepoint Group (LON:BPT) and Melrose Industries (LON:MRO) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
Bridgepoint Group has a net margin of 16.74% compared to Melrose Industries' net margin of -1.13%. Bridgepoint Group's return on equity of 6.10% beat Melrose Industries' return on equity.
In the previous week, Melrose Industries had 3 more articles in the media than Bridgepoint Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Melrose Industries and 1 mentions for Bridgepoint Group. Melrose Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Bridgepoint Group's score of 0.23 indicating that Melrose Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Melrose Industries received 993 more outperform votes than Bridgepoint Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.60% of users gave Melrose Industries an outperform vote while only 80.00% of users gave Bridgepoint Group an outperform vote.
20.4% of Bridgepoint Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.7% of Melrose Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.0% of Bridgepoint Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Melrose Industries shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Bridgepoint Group has a beta of 1.72, indicating that its share price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Melrose Industries has a beta of 1.51, indicating that its share price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Bridgepoint Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 359.33, suggesting a potential upside of 34.38%. Melrose Industries has a consensus price target of GBX 640, suggesting a potential upside of 47.60%. Given Melrose Industries' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Melrose Industries is more favorable than Bridgepoint Group.
Bridgepoint Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Melrose Industries pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Bridgepoint Group pays out 163.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Melrose Industries pays out -202.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Bridgepoint Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Melrose Industries. Melrose Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bridgepoint Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Bridgepoint Group beats Melrose Industries on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:MRO) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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