MGAM vs. GEC, GDWN, BOY, ITM, ROR, REDD, JHD, FAN, KLR, and TYMN
Should you be buying Morgan Advanced Materials stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Morgan Advanced Materials include General Electric (GEC), Goodwin (GDWN), Bodycote (BOY), ITM Power (ITM), Rotork (ROR), Redde Northgate (REDD), James Halstead (JHD), Volution Group (FAN), Keller Group (KLR), and Tyman (TYMN). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
General Electric (LON:GEC) and Morgan Advanced Materials (LON:MGAM) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, community ranking and profitability.
Morgan Advanced Materials has a consensus target price of GBX 315, indicating a potential upside of 0.00%. Given General Electric's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Morgan Advanced Materials is more favorable than General Electric.
76.0% of General Electric shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.7% of Morgan Advanced Materials shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of General Electric shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Morgan Advanced Materials shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Morgan Advanced Materials received 432 more outperform votes than General Electric when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.71% of users gave Morgan Advanced Materials an outperform vote while only 62.77% of users gave General Electric an outperform vote.
General Electric has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Morgan Advanced Materials has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.
General Electric pays an annual dividend of GBX 112 per share and has a dividend yield of 106.7%. Morgan Advanced Materials pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. General Electric pays out 1,403.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Morgan Advanced Materials pays out 7,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. General Electric is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
General Electric has higher revenue and earnings than Morgan Advanced Materials. General Electric is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Morgan Advanced Materials, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
General Electric has a net margin of 13.95% compared to General Electric's net margin of 4.24%. Morgan Advanced Materials' return on equity of 28.44% beat General Electric's return on equity.
In the previous week, General Electric had 2 more articles in the media than Morgan Advanced Materials. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for General Electric and 1 mentions for Morgan Advanced Materials. General Electric's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Morgan Advanced Materials' score of -0.39 indicating that Morgan Advanced Materials is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Morgan Advanced Materials beats General Electric on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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