PRV vs. AFS, MYX, AEG, BIFF, MGNS, GEN, GEC, FGP, KLR, and CHG
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), Biffa (BIFF), Morgan Sindall Group (MGNS), Genuit Group (GEN), General Electric (GEC), FirstGroup (FGP), Keller Group (KLR), and Chemring Group (CHG). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Amiad Water Systems (LON:AFS) and Porvair (LON:PRV) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Porvair received 108 more outperform votes than Amiad Water Systems when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.49% of users gave Porvair an outperform vote while only 73.08% of users gave Amiad Water Systems an outperform vote.
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.
Porvair has a consensus price target of GBX 800, suggesting a potential upside of 19.76%. Given Amiad Water Systems' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Porvair is more favorable than Amiad Water Systems.
Porvair has a net margin of 9.07% compared to Porvair's net margin of 0.00%. Amiad Water Systems' return on equity of 11.76% beat Porvair's return on equity.
In the previous week, Amiad Water Systems and Amiad Water Systems both had 1 articles in the media. Amiad Water Systems' average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Porvair's score of 0.30 indicating that Porvair is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
62.3% of Porvair shares are held by institutional investors. 22.9% of Porvair shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Porvair beats Amiad Water Systems on 13 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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