ROR vs. IMI, BOY, GEC, MGAM, SPX, WIZZ, ULE, OLEE, BBA, and AGK
Should you be buying Rotork stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rotork include IMI (IMI), Bodycote (BOY), General Electric (GEC), Morgan Advanced Materials (MGAM), Spirax-Sarco Engineering (SPX), Wizz Air (WIZZ), Ultra Electronics (ULE), Oleeo (OLEE), BBA Aviation (BBA), and Aggreko (AGK). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Rotork vs.
Rotork (LON:ROR) and IMI (LON:IMI) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends and community ranking.
Rotork currently has a consensus target price of GBX 339, suggesting a potential upside of 4.44%. IMI has a consensus target price of GBX 1,855, suggesting a potential upside of 15.43%. Given IMI's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe IMI is more favorable than Rotork.
IMI has higher revenue and earnings than Rotork. IMI is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rotork, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
IMI received 202 more outperform votes than Rotork when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.41% of users gave IMI an outperform vote while only 44.55% of users gave Rotork an outperform vote.
Rotork pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. IMI pays an annual dividend of GBX 26 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Rotork pays out 6,363.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. IMI pays out 2,988.5% 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 has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IMI has a beta of 1.15, meaning that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
77.4% of Rotork shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.9% of IMI shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Rotork shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of IMI shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, IMI had 6 more articles in the media than Rotork. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for IMI and 1 mentions for Rotork. IMI's average media sentiment score of 0.26 beat Rotork's score of 0.00 indicating that IMI is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Rotork has a net margin of 14.53% compared to IMI's net margin of 11.04%. IMI's return on equity of 26.86% beat Rotork's return on equity.
Summary
IMI beats Rotork on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding ROR and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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