SMIN vs. MRO, SPX, WEIR, IMI, ROR, BOY, MGAM, GDWN, ITM, and CGS
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.
Melrose Industries (LON:MRO) and Smiths Group (LON:SMIN) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, profitability, risk and dividends.
Melrose Industries currently has a consensus target price of GBX 590, suggesting a potential downside of 4.19%. Smiths Group has a consensus target price of GBX 1,930, suggesting a potential upside of 12.08%. Given Melrose Industries' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Smiths Group is more favorable than Melrose Industries.
Smiths Group has a net margin of 7.65% compared to Smiths Group's net margin of -30.42%. Melrose Industries' return on equity of 10.12% beat Smiths Group's return on equity.
Melrose Industries received 549 more outperform votes than Smiths Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.69% of users gave Melrose Industries an outperform vote while only 62.43% of users gave Smiths Group an outperform vote.
Melrose Industries pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Smiths Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 42 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. 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.
81.9% of Melrose Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.6% of Smiths Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Melrose Industries shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Smiths Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Melrose Industries has a beta of 1.59, indicating that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Smiths Group has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Smiths Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Melrose Industries.
In the previous week, Smiths Group had 1 more articles in the media than Melrose Industries. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Smiths Group and 2 mentions for Melrose Industries. Smiths Group's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Melrose Industries' score of 0.67 indicating that Melrose Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Smiths Group beats Melrose Industries on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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