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
Smiths Group (LON:SMIN) 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 profitability, valuation, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Smiths Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.44 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%. Smiths Group pays out 49.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Spirax-Sarco Engineering pays out 75.0% 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 consensus target price of GBX 7,983.33, indicating a potential upside of 11.13%. Given Spirax-Sarco Engineering's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Spirax-Sarco Engineering is more favorable than Smiths Group.
83.3% of Smiths Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.6% of Spirax-Sarco Engineering shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Smiths Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Spirax-Sarco Engineering shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Smiths Group had 6 more articles in the media than Spirax-Sarco Engineering. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Smiths Group and 0 mentions for Spirax-Sarco Engineering. Smiths Group's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Spirax-Sarco Engineering's score of 0.86 indicating that Smiths Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Smiths Group has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its stock price is 34% less 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.
Smiths Group has higher revenue and earnings than Spirax-Sarco Engineering. Smiths Group 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.
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 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:SPX) was last updated on 9/7/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
