IMI vs. MRO, SPX, SMIN, WEIR, ROR, BOY, MGAM, GDWN, ITM, and CGS
Should you be buying IMI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IMI include Melrose Industries (MRO), Spirax-Sarco Engineering (SPX), Smiths Group (SMIN), The Weir Group (WEIR), 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.
Melrose Industries (LON:MRO) and IMI (LON:IMI) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking and risk.
Melrose Industries pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. IMI pays an annual dividend of GBX 28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. IMI pays out 3,010.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
IMI has a net margin of 10.81% compared to IMI's net margin of -30.42%. Melrose Industries' return on equity of 24.52% beat IMI's return on equity.
Melrose Industries currently has a consensus target price of GBX 590, suggesting a potential downside of 4.19%. IMI has a consensus target price of GBX 1,983.33, suggesting a potential upside of 6.92%. Given Melrose Industries' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe IMI is more favorable than Melrose Industries.
IMI has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Melrose Industries.
In the previous week, IMI had 3 more articles in the media than Melrose Industries. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for IMI and 2 mentions for Melrose Industries. IMI's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Melrose Industries' score of 0.32 indicating that Melrose Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
81.9% of Melrose Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.1% of IMI shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Melrose Industries shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of IMI shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Melrose Industries received 435 more outperform votes than IMI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.69% of users gave Melrose Industries an outperform vote while only 59.58% of users gave IMI an outperform vote.
Melrose Industries has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IMI has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
IMI beats Melrose Industries on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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