ROR vs. SMIN, MRO, WEIR, IMI, SPX, BOY, MGAM, GDWN, ITM, and RNO
Should you be buying Rotork stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rotork include Smiths Group (SMIN), Melrose Industries (MRO), The Weir Group (WEIR), IMI (IMI), Spirax-Sarco Engineering (SPX), Bodycote (BOY), Morgan Advanced Materials (MGAM), Goodwin (GDWN), ITM Power (ITM), and Renold (RNO). These companies are all part of the "specialty industrial machinery" industry.
Rotork vs. Its Competitors
Rotork (LON:ROR) and Smiths Group (LON:SMIN) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation and profitability.
70.6% of Rotork shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.2% of Smiths Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Rotork shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Smiths Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Rotork presently has a consensus target price of GBX 380, suggesting a potential upside of 18.75%. Smiths Group has a consensus target price of GBX 1,850, suggesting a potential downside of 19.70%. Given Rotork's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Rotork is more favorable than Smiths Group.
Rotork pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Smiths Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Rotork pays out 50.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Smiths Group pays out 61.1% 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 is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Rotork has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Smiths Group has a beta of 0.66, meaning that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Smiths Group has higher revenue and earnings than Rotork. Rotork is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Smiths Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Smiths Group had 1 more articles in the media than Rotork. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Smiths Group and 1 mentions for Rotork. Rotork's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Smiths Group's score of 0.54 indicating that Rotork is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Rotork has a net margin of 15.98% compared to Smiths Group's net margin of 7.98%. Rotork's return on equity of 19.42% beat Smiths Group's return on equity.
Summary
Rotork beats Smiths Group on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:ROR) was last updated on 7/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
