ROR vs. MRO, SMIN, WEIR, IMI, SPX, BOY, GDWN, MGAM, ITM, and AVG
Should you be buying Rotork stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rotork include Melrose Industries (MRO), Smiths Group (SMIN), The Weir Group (WEIR), IMI (IMI), Spirax-Sarco Engineering (SPX), Bodycote (BOY), Goodwin (GDWN), Morgan Advanced Materials (MGAM), ITM Power (ITM), and Avingtrans (AVG). These companies are all part of the "specialty industrial machinery" industry.
Rotork vs. Its Competitors
Rotork (LON:ROR) and Melrose Industries (LON:MRO) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Rotork has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Melrose Industries. Melrose Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rotork, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Rotork has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Melrose Industries has a beta of 1.51, meaning that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.
65.9% of Rotork shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.3% of Melrose Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Rotork shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of Melrose Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Rotork has a net margin of 15.98% compared to Melrose Industries' net margin of -1.13%. Rotork's return on equity of 19.42% beat Melrose Industries' return on equity.
Rotork pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Melrose Industries pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Rotork pays out 66.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Melrose Industries pays out 24.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Rotork presently has a consensus price target of GBX 396.25, indicating a potential upside of 14.91%. Melrose Industries has a consensus price target of GBX 655, indicating a potential upside of 1.71%. Given Rotork's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Rotork is more favorable than Melrose Industries.
In the previous week, Melrose Industries had 3 more articles in the media than Rotork. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Melrose Industries and 2 mentions for Rotork. Melrose Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.37 beat Rotork's score of 0.94 indicating that Melrose Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Rotork beats Melrose Industries on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:ROR) was last updated on 10/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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