ROR vs. BOY, GEC, IMI, MGAM, WEIR, SMIN, SPX, MRO, BAB, and RS1
Should you be buying Rotork stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rotork include Bodycote (BOY), General Electric (GEC), IMI (IMI), Morgan Advanced Materials (MGAM), The Weir Group (WEIR), Smiths Group (SMIN), Spirax-Sarco Engineering (SPX), Melrose Industries (MRO), Babcock International Group (BAB), and RS Group (RS1). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Rotork (LON:ROR) and Bodycote (LON:BOY) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, earnings and media sentiment.
Rotork has a net margin of 15.73% compared to Bodycote's net margin of 10.67%. Rotork's return on equity of 18.72% beat Bodycote's return on equity.
Bodycote received 199 more outperform votes than Rotork when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.62% of users gave Bodycote an outperform vote while only 44.35% of users gave Rotork an outperform vote.
Rotork has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Bodycote has a beta of 1.18, meaning that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Rotork pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Bodycote pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Rotork pays out 5,384.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Bodycote pays out 5,111.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Bodycote is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Rotork currently has a consensus target price of GBX 336.67, suggesting a potential upside of 8.11%. Bodycote has a consensus target price of GBX 670, suggesting a potential downside of 0.30%. Given Rotork's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Rotork is more favorable than Bodycote.
Rotork has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Bodycote. Bodycote is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rotork, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
75.3% of Rotork shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.0% of Bodycote shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Rotork shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Bodycote shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Bodycote's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Rotork's score of 0.00 indicating that Bodycote is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Rotork beats Bodycote on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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