BOY vs. MGAM, GDWN, ROR, IMI, SMS, CKN, PAGE, HAS, GEC, and MGNS
Should you be buying Bodycote stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bodycote include Morgan Advanced Materials (MGAM), Goodwin (GDWN), Rotork (ROR), IMI (IMI), Smart Metering Systems (SMS), Clarkson (CKN), PageGroup (PAGE), Hays (HAS), General Electric (GEC), and Morgan Sindall Group (MGNS). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Morgan Advanced Materials (LON:MGAM) and Bodycote (LON:BOY) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
Bodycote has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Morgan Advanced Materials. Bodycote 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.
In the previous week, Morgan Advanced Materials had 1 more articles in the media than Bodycote. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Morgan Advanced Materials and 1 mentions for Bodycote. Bodycote's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Morgan Advanced Materials' score of 0.10 indicating that Morgan Advanced Materials is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Morgan Advanced Materials currently has a consensus price target of GBX 315, suggesting a potential downside of 4.83%. Bodycote has a consensus price target of GBX 670, suggesting a potential downside of 12.07%. Given Bodycote's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Morgan Advanced Materials is more favorable than Bodycote.
Bodycote received 69 more outperform votes than Morgan Advanced Materials when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.62% of users gave Bodycote an outperform vote while only 66.71% of users gave Morgan Advanced Materials an outperform vote.
Morgan Advanced Materials pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Bodycote pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. 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. 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 has a net margin of 10.67% compared to Bodycote's net margin of 4.24%. Bodycote's return on equity of 13.43% beat Morgan Advanced Materials' return on equity.
80.9% of Morgan Advanced Materials shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.9% of Bodycote shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Morgan Advanced Materials shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Bodycote shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Morgan Advanced Materials has a beta of 1.39, indicating that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bodycote has a beta of 1.2, indicating that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Morgan Advanced Materials beats Bodycote on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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