PRV vs. RCDO, FNTL, CWR, RWA, RST, CHRT, ELIX, LUCE, ITM, and SHI
Should you be buying Porvair stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Porvair include Ricardo (RCDO), Fintel (FNTL), Ceres Power (CWR), Robert Walters (RWA), Restore (RST), Cohort (CHRT), Elixirr International (ELIX), Luceco (LUCE), ITM Power (ITM), and SIG (SHI). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Ricardo (LON:RCDO) and Porvair (LON:PRV) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, valuation, community ranking and earnings.
Porvair has a net margin of 9.07% compared to Porvair's net margin of -0.13%. Ricardo's return on equity of 11.76% beat Porvair's return on equity.
Ricardo received 76 more outperform votes than Porvair when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 74.59% of users gave Porvair an outperform vote while only 69.35% of users gave Ricardo an outperform vote.
Porvair has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Ricardo. Ricardo is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Porvair, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ricardo has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Porvair has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Porvair had 4 more articles in the media than Ricardo. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Porvair and 0 mentions for Ricardo. Ricardo's average media sentiment score of 1.55 beat Porvair's score of 0.00 indicating that Porvair is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ricardo pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Porvair pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Ricardo pays out -120,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Porvair pays out 1,714.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ricardo is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
82.7% of Ricardo shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.4% of Porvair shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of Ricardo shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 19.8% 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.
Summary
Porvair beats Ricardo on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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