ROR vs. BOY, GEC, IMI, MGAM, WEIR, SMIN, SPX, MRO, BAB, and WIZZ
Should you be buying Rotork stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rotork include Bodycote (BOY), General Electric (GEC), IMI (IMI), Morgan Advanced Materials (MGAM), The Weir Group (WEIR), Smiths Group (SMIN), Spirax-Sarco Engineering (SPX), Melrose Industries (MRO), Babcock International Group (BAB), and Wizz Air (WIZZ). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Bodycote (LON:BOY) and Rotork (LON:ROR) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends and risk.
Bodycote received 199 more outperform votes than Rotork when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.62% of users gave Bodycote an outperform vote while only 44.40% of users gave Rotork an outperform vote.
Bodycote has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rotork has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Rotork has a net margin of 15.73% compared to Rotork's net margin of 10.67%. Bodycote's return on equity of 18.72% beat Rotork's return on equity.
Bodycote pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Rotork pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Bodycote pays out 5,111.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Rotork pays out 5,833.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Bodycote is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Rotork has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Bodycote. Bodycote is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rotork, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bodycote currently has a consensus target price of GBX 670, indicating a potential downside of 3.80%. Rotork has a consensus target price of GBX 346.67, indicating a potential upside of 5.43%. Given Bodycote's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Rotork is more favorable than Bodycote.
69.0% of Bodycote shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.2% of Rotork shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Bodycote shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Rotork shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Rotork had 1 more articles in the media than Bodycote. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Rotork and 1 mentions for Bodycote. Rotork's average media sentiment score of 1.53 beat Bodycote's score of 0.42 indicating that Bodycote is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Rotork beats Bodycote on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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