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Should you be buying Smiths Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Smiths Group include Melrose Industries (MRO), Spirax-Sarco Engineering (SPX), The Weir Group (WEIR), IMI (IMI), Rotork (ROR), 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.
Smiths Group (LON:SMIN) and Melrose Industries (LON:MRO) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, valuation and earnings.
In the previous week, Smiths Group and Smiths Group both had 2 articles in the media. Smiths Group's average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat Melrose Industries' score of 0.00 indicating that Smiths Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Smiths Group has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Melrose Industries has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
72.6% of Smiths Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.9% of Melrose Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Smiths Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Melrose Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Melrose Industries received 550 more outperform votes than Smiths Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.70% of users gave Melrose Industries an outperform vote while only 62.43% of users gave Smiths Group an outperform vote.
Smiths Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Melrose Industries.
Smiths Group has a net margin of 7.65% compared to Melrose Industries' net margin of -30.42%. Smiths Group's return on equity of 10.12% beat Melrose Industries' return on equity.
Smiths Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 2,012.50, suggesting a potential upside of 15.40%. Melrose Industries has a consensus price target of GBX 645, suggesting a potential upside of 13.48%. Given Smiths Group's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Smiths Group is more favorable than Melrose Industries.
Smiths Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 42 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Melrose Industries pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Smiths Group pays out 6,268.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
Smiths Group and Melrose Industries tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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