SMIN vs. MRO, WEIR, MGGT, ITRK, BKG, IMI, TW, HSV, COB, and RS1
Should you be buying Smiths Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Smiths Group include Melrose Industries (MRO), The Weir Group (WEIR), Meggitt (MGGT), Intertek Group (ITRK), The Berkeley Group (BKG), IMI (IMI), Taylor Wimpey (TW), HomeServe (HSV), Cobham (COB), and RS Group (RS1). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Smiths Group vs.
Melrose Industries (LON:MRO) and Smiths Group (LON:SMIN) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.
Melrose Industries received 551 more outperform votes than Smiths Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.75% of users gave Melrose Industries an outperform vote while only 62.36% of users gave Smiths Group an outperform vote.
Smiths Group has a net margin of 0.70% compared to Melrose Industries' net margin of -4.09%. Smiths Group's return on equity of 0.00% beat Melrose Industries' return on equity.
Melrose Industries presently has a consensus price target of GBX 345, suggesting a potential downside of 29.98%. Smiths Group has a consensus price target of GBX 1,785, suggesting a potential upside of 9.91%. Given Smiths Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Smiths Group is more favorable than Melrose Industries.
Melrose Industries pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Smiths Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Melrose Industries pays out -4,117.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Smiths Group pays out 133,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
74.6% of Melrose Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.8% of Smiths Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of Melrose Industries shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Smiths Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Melrose Industries and Melrose Industries both had 1 articles in the media. Smiths Group's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Melrose Industries' score of 0.27 indicating that Smiths Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Melrose Industries has a beta of 1.66, indicating that its stock price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Smiths Group has a beta of 0.64, indicating that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Smiths Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Melrose Industries. Melrose Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Smiths Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Smiths Group beats Melrose Industries on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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