SPX vs. MRO, SMIN, 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 Melrose Industries (MRO), Smiths Group (SMIN), 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
Melrose Industries (LON:MRO) and Spirax-Sarco Engineering (LON:SPX) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, earnings and institutional ownership.
Melrose Industries has a beta of 1.51, indicating that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Spirax-Sarco Engineering has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Melrose Industries pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Spirax-Sarco Engineering pays an annual dividend of GBX 1.65 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Melrose Industries pays out 0.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Spirax-Sarco Engineering pays out 0.7% 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 lower revenue, but higher earnings than Melrose Industries. Melrose Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Spirax-Sarco Engineering, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Melrose Industries had 3 more articles in the media than Spirax-Sarco Engineering. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Melrose Industries and 1 mentions for Spirax-Sarco Engineering. Melrose Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Spirax-Sarco Engineering's score of 0.67 indicating that Melrose Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Melrose Industries presently has a consensus price target of GBX 655, suggesting a potential upside of 3.02%. Spirax-Sarco Engineering has a consensus price target of GBX 7,900, suggesting a potential upside of 13.91%. Given Spirax-Sarco Engineering's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Spirax-Sarco Engineering is more favorable than Melrose Industries.
83.3% of Melrose Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.6% of Spirax-Sarco Engineering shares are held by institutional investors. 2.4% of Melrose Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Spirax-Sarco Engineering shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Spirax-Sarco Engineering has a net margin of 11.57% compared to Melrose Industries' net margin of -1.13%. Spirax-Sarco Engineering's return on equity of 16.58% beat Melrose Industries' return on equity.
Summary
Spirax-Sarco Engineering beats Melrose Industries on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:SPX) was last updated on 10/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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