ROR vs. MRO, SMIN, WEIR, SPX, IMI, BOY, MGAM, GDWN, ITM, and CGS
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), Spirax-Sarco Engineering (SPX), IMI (IMI), Bodycote (BOY), Morgan Advanced Materials (MGAM), Goodwin (GDWN), ITM Power (ITM), and Castings (CGS). These companies are all part of the "specialty industrial machinery" industry.
Rotork vs.
Melrose Industries (LON:MRO) and Rotork (LON:ROR) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends and profitability.
Melrose Industries received 641 more outperform votes than Rotork when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.60% of users gave Melrose Industries an outperform vote while only 44.44% of users gave Rotork an outperform vote.
Melrose Industries presently has a consensus price target of GBX 640, indicating a potential upside of 1.85%. Rotork has a consensus price target of GBX 385, indicating a potential upside of 15.07%. Given Rotork's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Rotork is more favorable than Melrose Industries.
Melrose Industries has a beta of 1.51, suggesting that its share price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rotork has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
82.7% of Melrose Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.6% of Rotork shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Melrose Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Rotork shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Melrose Industries pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Rotork pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Melrose Industries pays out -202.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Rotork pays out 50.4% 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 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 has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
In the previous week, Melrose Industries had 2 more articles in the media than Rotork. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Melrose Industries and 2 mentions for Rotork. Melrose Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat Rotork's score of 1.15 indicating that Melrose Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Melrose Industries and Rotork tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:ROR) was last updated on 2/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff