ROR vs. MRO, SPX, SMIN, WEIR, 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), Spirax-Sarco Engineering (SPX), Smiths Group (SMIN), The Weir Group (WEIR), 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.
Melrose Industries (LON:MRO) and Rotork (LON:ROR) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability and community ranking.
Melrose Industries presently has a consensus target price of GBX 645, suggesting a potential upside of 13.48%. Rotork has a consensus target price of GBX 335, suggesting a potential downside of 4.34%. Given Rotork's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Melrose Industries is more favorable than Rotork.
81.9% of Melrose Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.1% of Rotork shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Melrose Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Rotork shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Melrose Industries received 641 more outperform votes than Rotork when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.70% of users gave Melrose Industries an outperform vote while only 44.29% of users gave Rotork an outperform vote.
Melrose Industries pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Rotork pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Rotork pays out 5,384.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Rotork had 1 more articles in the media than Melrose Industries. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Rotork and 2 mentions for Melrose Industries. Melrose Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Rotork's score of 0.00 indicating that Rotork is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Rotork has a net margin of 15.73% compared to Rotork's net margin of -30.42%. Melrose Industries' return on equity of 18.72% beat Rotork's return on equity.
Rotork has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Melrose Industries.
Melrose Industries has a beta of 1.59, meaning that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rotork has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Melrose Industries beats Rotork on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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