MSI vs. SPI, ESP, RTN, IPF, APH, SGM, BERI, MCP, AMAT, and STM
Should you be buying MS INTERNATIONAL stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MS INTERNATIONAL include Spire Healthcare Group (SPI), Empiric Student Property (ESP), The Restaurant Group (RTN), International Personal Finance (IPF), Alliance Pharma (APH), Sigma Capital Group (SGM), BlackRock Energy and Resources (BERI), Martin Currie Asia Unconstrand Trust (MCP), Amati AIM VCT (AMAT), and STM Group (STM). These companies are all part of the "electronic equipment" industry.
MS INTERNATIONAL vs. Its Competitors
Spire Healthcare Group (LON:SPI) and MS INTERNATIONAL (LON:MSI) are both small-cap electronic equipment companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
40.6% of Spire Healthcare Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.0% of MS INTERNATIONAL shares are held by institutional investors. 39.2% of Spire Healthcare Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 37.5% of MS INTERNATIONAL shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Spire Healthcare Group has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MS INTERNATIONAL has a beta of 0.04, suggesting that its stock price is 96% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Spire Healthcare Group had 39 more articles in the media than MS INTERNATIONAL. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for Spire Healthcare Group and 1 mentions for MS INTERNATIONAL. Spire Healthcare Group's average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat MS INTERNATIONAL's score of 0.00 indicating that Spire Healthcare Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Spire Healthcare Group currently has a consensus price target of GBX 294.33, suggesting a potential upside of 20.56%. Given Spire Healthcare Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Spire Healthcare Group is more favorable than MS INTERNATIONAL.
Spire Healthcare Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. MS INTERNATIONAL pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Spire Healthcare Group pays out 50.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. MS INTERNATIONAL pays out 24.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. MS INTERNATIONAL is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
MS INTERNATIONAL has a net margin of 10.49% compared to Spire Healthcare Group's net margin of 1.96%. MS INTERNATIONAL's return on equity of 24.42% beat Spire Healthcare Group's return on equity.
Spire Healthcare Group has higher revenue and earnings than MS INTERNATIONAL. MS INTERNATIONAL is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Spire Healthcare Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Spire Healthcare Group beats MS INTERNATIONAL on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:MSI) was last updated on 9/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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