Porvair (PRV) Competitors

Porvair (LON:PRV) and Amiad Water Systems (LON:AFS) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, dividends and institutional ownership.

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of PRV or AFS?

60.2% of Porvair shares are held by institutional investors. 21.6% of Porvair shares are held by company 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.

Is PRV or AFS more profitable?

Porvair has a net margin of 8.57% compared to Amiad Water Systems' net margin of 0.00%. Porvair's return on equity of 10.75% beat Amiad Water Systems' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Porvair	8.57%	10.75%	6.39%
Amiad Water Systems	N/A	N/A	N/A

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in PRV or AFS?

Porvair received 108 more outperform votes than Amiad Water Systems when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.90% of users gave Porvair an outperform vote while only 73.08% of users gave Amiad Water Systems an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Porvair	Outperform Votes 184 73.90%	Underperform Votes 65 26.10%
Amiad Water Systems	Outperform Votes 76 73.08%	Underperform Votes 28 26.92%

Do analysts rate PRV or AFS?

Porvair presently has a consensus price target of GBX 800, indicating a potential upside of 7.28%. Given Porvair's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Porvair is more favorable than Amiad Water Systems.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Porvair	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50
Amiad Water Systems	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Which has better valuation & earnings, PRV or AFS?

Porvair has higher revenue and earnings than Amiad Water Systems. Amiad Water Systems is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Porvair, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Porvair	£179.19M	1.90	£15.35M	£33.73	22.11
Amiad Water Systems	£104.60M	0.00	N/A	£6.80	N/A

Does the media refer more to PRV or AFS?

In the previous week, Porvair had 2 more articles in the media than Amiad Water Systems. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Porvair and 0 mentions for Amiad Water Systems. Porvair's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Amiad Water Systems' score of 0.00 indicating that Porvair is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Porvair	Positive
Amiad Water Systems	Neutral

Summary

Porvair beats Amiad Water Systems on 14 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.