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Porvair (PRV) Competitors

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GBX 716 +4.00 (+0.56%)
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PRV vs. AFS, MYX, AEG, BOE, WIZZ, SMS, BIFF, FAN, TPK, and FGP

Should you be buying Porvair stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Porvair include Amiad Water Systems (AFS), MYCELX Technologies (MYX), Active Energy Group (AEG), Boeing (BOE), Wizz Air (WIZZ), Smart Metering Systems (SMS), Biffa (BIFF), Volution Group (FAN), Travis Perkins (TPK), and FirstGroup (FGP). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.

Porvair vs. Its Competitors

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

Given Amiad Water Systems' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Amiad Water Systems is more favorable than Porvair.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Amiad Water Systems
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Porvair
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

53.0% of Porvair shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of Porvair shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Porvair had 3 more articles in the media than Amiad Water Systems. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Porvair and 0 mentions for Amiad Water Systems. Porvair's average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Amiad Water Systems' score of 0.00 indicating that Porvair is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Amiad Water Systems Neutral
Porvair Positive

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Amiad Water Systems£104.60M0.00N/A£6.80N/A
Porvair£195.70M1.69£15.35M£0.371,950.95

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
Amiad Water SystemsN/A N/A N/A
Porvair 8.57%10.75%6.39%

Summary

Porvair beats Amiad Water Systems on 10 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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PRV vs. The Competition

MetricPorvairPollution & Treatment Controls IndustryIndustrials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£330.31M£357.54M£7.83B£2.57B
Dividend Yield0.88%22.15%4.56%5.30%
P/E Ratio1,950.95104.68309.785,413.34
Price / Sales1.6938.59211.9597,256.67
Price / Cash17.3719.0627.9027.93
Price / Book2.253.374.638.43
Net Income£15.35M-£1.02M£798.53M£5.89B
7 Day Performance-0.83%-1.40%1.29%0.35%
1 Month Performance2.29%9.78%1.72%44.36%
1 Year Performance10.84%6.17%27.34%164.68%

Porvair Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PRV
Porvair
N/AGBX 716
+0.6%
N/A+11.3%£330.31M£195.70M1,950.95976News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast
AFS
Amiad Water Systems
N/AN/AN/AN/A£110.71M£104.60M53.533,950Gap Up
High Trading Volume
MYX
MYCELX Technologies
1.3032 of 5 stars
GBX 26.04
-3.6%
GBX 95
+264.8%
-45.0%£6.34M£4.90M-217.00N/AGap Down
AEG
Active Energy Group
N/AGBX 0.09
+4.8%
N/AN/A£447KN/A-7.6522,300Positive News
High Trading Volume
BOE
Boeing
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.32B£70.54B-30.77156,000Gap Up
WIZZ
Wizz Air
1.0564 of 5 stars
GBX 1,276
-0.3%
GBX 1,175
-7.9%
N/A£1.32B£5.27B716.857,389
SMS
Smart Metering Systems
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.27B£135.52M8,654.551,361
BIFF
Biffa
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.26B£1.44B-51.257,357
FAN
Volution Group
2.3086 of 5 stars
GBX 630
+1.1%
GBX 746.67
+18.5%
+16.9%£1.25B£362.97M3,181.821,909
TPK
Travis Perkins
1.6683 of 5 stars
GBX 580
+2.0%
GBX 660
+13.8%
-35.9%£1.23B£4.56B-2,196.9719,172
FGP
FirstGroup
1.4459 of 5 stars
GBX 219.25
+2.3%
GBX 240
+9.5%
+41.2%£1.20B£4.65B1,069.5131,477

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This page (LON:PRV) was last updated on 9/16/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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