HLMA vs. MRO, IAG, ITRK, SPX, RTO, SMIN, WEIR, DPLM, IMI, and EZJ
Should you be buying Halma stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Halma include Melrose Industries (MRO), International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG), Intertek Group (ITRK), Spirax-Sarco Engineering (SPX), Rentokil Initial (RTO), Smiths Group (SMIN), The Weir Group (WEIR), Diploma (DPLM), IMI (IMI), and easyJet (EZJ). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Melrose Industries (LON:MRO) and Halma (LON:HLMA) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Melrose Industries received 587 more outperform votes than Halma when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.69% of users gave Melrose Industries an outperform vote while only 57.26% of users gave Halma an outperform vote.
81.9% of Melrose Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.3% of Halma shares are held by institutional investors. 3.0% of Melrose Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Halma shares are held by company 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.
Halma has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Melrose Industries. Melrose Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Halma, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Halma has a net margin of 12.35% compared to Halma's net margin of -30.42%. Melrose Industries' return on equity of 14.52% beat Halma's return on equity.
Melrose Industries has a beta of 1.59, meaning that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Halma has a beta of 0.58, meaning that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Melrose Industries presently has a consensus price target of GBX 590, suggesting a potential downside of 7.87%. Halma has a consensus price target of GBX 2,315, suggesting a potential upside of 4.33%. Given Melrose Industries' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Halma is more favorable than Melrose Industries.
In the previous week, Halma had 1 more articles in the media than Melrose Industries. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Halma and 1 mentions for Melrose Industries. Melrose Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Halma's score of 0.30 indicating that Halma is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Melrose Industries pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Halma pays an annual dividend of GBX 21 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Melrose Industries pays out -25,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Halma pays out 3,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
Halma beats Melrose Industries on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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