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Porvair (PRV) Competitors

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GBX 784 -4.00 (-0.51%)
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PRV vs. AFS, MYX, AEG, BOE, TPK, SMS, BIFF, FAN, HAS, and KLR

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), Travis Perkins (TPK), Smart Metering Systems (SMS), Biffa (BIFF), Volution Group (FAN), Hays (HAS), and Keller Group (KLR). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.

Porvair vs.

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

60.2% of Porvair shares are held by institutional investors. 21.6% of Porvair shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

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.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Amiad Water SystemsOutperform Votes
76
73.08%
Underperform Votes
28
26.92%
PorvairOutperform Votes
184
73.90%
Underperform Votes
65
26.10%

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%

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£179.19M2.00£15.35M£33.7323.24

In the previous week, Amiad Water Systems' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Porvair'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Amiad Water Systems Neutral
Porvair Neutral

Porvair has a consensus target price of GBX 800, indicating a potential upside of 2.04%. Given Porvair's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Porvair is more favorable than Amiad Water Systems.

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)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

Summary

Porvair beats Amiad Water Systems on 12 of the 13 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£358.72M£86.24M£7.66B£2.66B
Dividend Yield0.87%19.64%4.58%5.05%
P/E Ratio23.247.2823.23129.21
Price / Sales2.0035.5690.51221,406.01
Price / Cash17.3719.0626.9428.02
Price / Book2.463.103.983.79
Net Income£15.35M-£1.02M£807.24M£5.88B
7 Day Performance-1.51%4.77%0.74%0.63%
1 Month Performance7.99%10.32%11.08%22.11%
1 Year Performance23.27%-13.58%19.47%120.87%

Porvair Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PRV
Porvair
N/AGBX 784
-0.5%
GBX 800
+2.0%
+25.1%£358.72M£179.19M23.24976Gap Down
AFS
Amiad Water Systems
N/AN/AN/AN/A£110.71M£104.60M53.533,950Gap Up
High Trading Volume
MYX
MYCELX Technologies
2.5544 of 5 stars
GBX 20
+7.5%
GBX 95
+375.0%
-50.7%£5.75M£11.21M-1.59N/ANews Coverage
Insider Trade
High Trading Volume
AEG
Active Energy Group
N/AGBX 0.21
-2.8%
N/A+18.0%£423,000.00N/A-0.7522,300Gap Down
BOE
Boeing
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.32B£70.54B-30.77156,000Gap Up
TPK
Travis Perkins
2.4527 of 5 stars
GBX 620.50
-0.7%
GBX 823.33
+32.7%
-25.8%£1.31B£4.77B-75.1219,172News Coverage
SMS
Smart Metering Systems
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.27B£135.52M8,654.551,361News Coverage
BIFF
Biffa
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.26B£1.44B-51.257,357
FAN
Volution Group
1.1676 of 5 stars
GBX 621
+1.0%
GBX 700
+12.7%
+36.9%£1.23B£346.77M28.591,909News Coverage
Gap Down
HAS
Hays
3.3664 of 5 stars
GBX 76.35
-0.5%
GBX 120
+57.2%
-30.8%£1.20B£6.91B-244.936,490Gap Down
KLR
Keller Group
2.6882 of 5 stars
GBX 1,574
+1.9%
GBX 1,750
+11.2%
+19.2%£1.15B£3.01B9.119,500News Coverage
Positive News
High Trading Volume

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This page (LON:PRV) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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