RTO vs. ITRK, IAG, HLMA, MRO, SPX, SMIN, DPLM, WEIR, IMI, and EZJ
Should you be buying Rentokil Initial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rentokil Initial include Intertek Group (ITRK), International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG), Halma (HLMA), Melrose Industries (MRO), Spirax-Sarco Engineering (SPX), Smiths Group (SMIN), Diploma (DPLM), The Weir Group (WEIR), IMI (IMI), and easyJet (EZJ). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Intertek Group (LON:ITRK) and Rentokil Initial (LON:RTO) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, risk, media sentiment and earnings.
Intertek Group has a beta of 0.64, meaning that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rentokil Initial has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Rentokil Initial has higher revenue and earnings than Intertek Group. Intertek Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rentokil Initial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Intertek Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 112 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Rentokil Initial pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Intertek Group pays out 6,120.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Rentokil Initial pays out 6,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Intertek Group and Intertek Group both had 1 articles in the media. Intertek Group's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Rentokil Initial's score of 0.66 indicating that Rentokil Initial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Intertek Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 4,959.17, indicating a potential upside of 0.10%. Rentokil Initial has a consensus target price of GBX 603.80, indicating a potential upside of 43.08%. Given Intertek Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Rentokil Initial is more favorable than Intertek Group.
Intertek Group has a net margin of 8.93% compared to Intertek Group's net margin of 7.09%. Rentokil Initial's return on equity of 23.76% beat Intertek Group's return on equity.
Rentokil Initial received 235 more outperform votes than Intertek Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.70% of users gave Rentokil Initial an outperform vote while only 48.57% of users gave Intertek Group an outperform vote.
73.8% of Intertek Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.9% of Rentokil Initial shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Intertek Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Rentokil Initial shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Rentokil Initial beats Intertek Group on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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