SPX vs. SMIN, MRO, WEIR, IMI, ROR, BOY, GDWN, MGAM, ITM, and RNO
Should you be buying Spirax-Sarco Engineering stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Spirax-Sarco Engineering include Smiths Group (SMIN), Melrose Industries (MRO), The Weir Group (WEIR), IMI (IMI), Rotork (ROR), Bodycote (BOY), Goodwin (GDWN), Morgan Advanced Materials (MGAM), ITM Power (ITM), and Renold (RNO). These companies are all part of the "specialty industrial machinery" industry.
Spirax-Sarco Engineering vs. Its Competitors
Spirax-Sarco Engineering (LON:SPX) and Smiths Group (LON:SMIN) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Spirax-Sarco Engineering presently has a consensus price target of GBX 7,983.33, suggesting a potential upside of 12.92%. Smiths Group has a consensus price target of GBX 1,850, suggesting a potential downside of 20.33%. Given Spirax-Sarco Engineering's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Spirax-Sarco Engineering is more favorable than Smiths Group.
Spirax-Sarco Engineering has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Smiths Group has a beta of 0.66, meaning that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Spirax-Sarco Engineering had 10 more articles in the media than Smiths Group. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Spirax-Sarco Engineering and 2 mentions for Smiths Group. Smiths Group's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Spirax-Sarco Engineering's score of 0.54 indicating that Smiths Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Smiths Group has higher revenue and earnings than Spirax-Sarco Engineering. Spirax-Sarco Engineering is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Smiths Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
80.4% of Spirax-Sarco Engineering shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.2% of Smiths Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Spirax-Sarco Engineering shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Smiths Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Spirax-Sarco Engineering pays an annual dividend of GBX 162 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Smiths Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Spirax-Sarco Engineering pays out 62.1% 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.
Spirax-Sarco Engineering has a net margin of 11.57% compared to Smiths Group's net margin of 7.98%. Spirax-Sarco Engineering's return on equity of 16.58% beat Smiths Group's return on equity.
Summary
Spirax-Sarco Engineering beats Smiths Group on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:SPX) was last updated on 8/16/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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