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Porvair (PRV) Competitors

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GBX 715 +1.00 (+0.14%)
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PRV vs. AFS, MYX, AEG, SMS, BIFF, BOY, HAS, GEC, PAGE, and FAN

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), Smart Metering Systems (SMS), Biffa (BIFF), Bodycote (BOY), Hays (HAS), General Electric (GEC), PageGroup (PAGE), and Volution Group (FAN). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.

Porvair vs.

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

In the previous week, Porvair had 4 more articles in the media than Amiad Water Systems. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Porvair and 0 mentions for Amiad Water Systems. Porvair's average media sentiment score of 0.55 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

Porvair currently has a consensus price target of GBX 800, suggesting a potential upside of 10.80%. Given Porvair's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly 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

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
Porvair8.57% 10.75% 6.39%
Amiad Water Systems N/A N/A N/A

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
Porvair£179.19M1.84£15.35M£33.7321.40
Amiad Water Systems£104.60M0.00N/A£6.80N/A

Porvair received 108 more outperform votes than Amiad Water Systems when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.19% of users gave Porvair an outperform vote while only 73.08% of users gave Amiad Water Systems an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
PorvairOutperform Votes
184
74.19%
Underperform Votes
64
25.81%
Amiad Water SystemsOutperform Votes
76
73.08%
Underperform Votes
28
26.92%

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

Summary

Porvair beats Amiad Water Systems on 14 of the 15 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£330.35M£85.68M£5.09B£2.62B
Dividend Yield0.87%19.64%3.95%5.03%
P/E Ratio21.407.8721.83158.97
Price / Sales1.8434.82191.41311,254.34
Price / Cash17.3719.0630.0027.80
Price / Book2.263.433.835.18
Net Income£15.35M-£1.02M£1.08B£5.66B
7 Day Performance-0.55%-0.05%1.08%3.27%
1 Month Performance1.98%-6.11%3.74%3.38%
1 Year Performance13.17%1.51%27.89%34.10%

Porvair Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PRV
Porvair
3.0494 of 5 stars
GBX 715
+0.1%
GBX 800
+11.9%
+13.7%£327.15M£179.19M21.20976
AFS
Amiad Water Systems
N/AN/AN/AN/A£110.71M£104.60M53.533,950Gap Up
High Trading Volume
MYX
MYCELX Technologies
1.3433 of 5 stars
GBX 31.15
-1.1%
GBX 95
+205.0%
-42.6%£7.59M£8.84M-283.18N/A
AEG
Active Energy Group
N/AGBX 0.36
+2.9%
N/A-6.7%£583,000.00£1.95M-18.0022,300Gap Up
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
BOY
Bodycote
2.0938 of 5 stars
GBX 655
+0.9%
GBX 812.50
+24.0%
+8.0%£1.20B£781.40M1,984.854,833Positive News
HAS
Hays
3.1731 of 5 stars
GBX 75.50
+0.1%
GBX 120
+58.9%
-23.3%£1.20B£6.95B1,905.006,490
GEC
General Electric
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.14B£69.52B27.63125,000Gap Up
PAGE
PageGroup
3.4116 of 5 stars
GBX 329
+1.7%
GBX 495
+50.5%
-26.5%£1.08B£1.87B2,056.257,859Gap Up
FAN
Volution Group
2.6328 of 5 stars
GBX 535
+0.2%
GBX 700
+30.8%
+22.6%£1.06B£338.20M2,547.621,909News Coverage

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This page (LON:PRV) was last updated on 2/19/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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