ROR vs. BOY, MGAM, IMI, WEIR, SMIN, SPX, MRO, BAB, IDS, and WIZZ
Should you be buying Rotork stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rotork include Bodycote (BOY), Morgan Advanced Materials (MGAM), IMI (IMI), The Weir Group (WEIR), Smiths Group (SMIN), Spirax-Sarco Engineering (SPX), Melrose Industries (MRO), Babcock International Group (BAB), International Distributions Services (IDS), and Wizz Air (WIZZ). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Bodycote (LON:BOY) and Rotork (LON:ROR) are both industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, earnings, dividends, risk, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
63.9% of Bodycote shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.2% of Rotork shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Bodycote shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Rotork shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Bodycote currently has a consensus price target of GBX 670, suggesting a potential downside of 13.32%. Rotork has a consensus price target of GBX 336.67, suggesting a potential downside of 0.63%. Given Bodycote's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Rotork is more favorable than Bodycote.
Rotork has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
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 44.29% of users gave Rotork an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Bodycote and Bodycote both had 1 articles in the media. Rotork's average media sentiment score of 0.10 beat Bodycote's score of 0.00 indicating that Bodycote is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Rotork has a net margin of 15.73% compared to Rotork's net margin of 10.67%. Bodycote's return on equity of 18.72% beat Rotork's return on equity.
Bodycote has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rotork has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Bodycote pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Rotork pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. 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. 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 is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Rotork beats Bodycote on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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