SPX vs. MRO, SMIN, WEIR, IMI, ROR, ITRK, DPLM, HLMA, IAG, and EZJ
Should you be buying Spirax-Sarco Engineering stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Spirax-Sarco Engineering include Melrose Industries (MRO), Smiths Group (SMIN), The Weir Group (WEIR), IMI (IMI), Rotork (ROR), Intertek Group (ITRK), Diploma (DPLM), Halma (HLMA), International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG), and easyJet (EZJ). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Melrose Industries (LON:MRO) and Spirax-Sarco Engineering (LON:SPX) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, media sentiment, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Melrose Industries currently has a consensus price target of GBX 590, suggesting a potential downside of 3.28%. Spirax-Sarco Engineering has a consensus price target of £101.50, suggesting a potential upside of 9.43%. Given Melrose Industries' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Spirax-Sarco Engineering is more favorable than Melrose Industries.
In the previous week, Melrose Industries had 1 more articles in the media than Spirax-Sarco Engineering. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Melrose Industries and 3 mentions for Spirax-Sarco Engineering. Spirax-Sarco Engineering's average media sentiment score of 1.50 beat Melrose Industries' score of 0.20 indicating that Melrose Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Melrose Industries received 619 more outperform votes than Spirax-Sarco Engineering when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.69% of users gave Melrose Industries an outperform vote while only 54.73% of users gave Spirax-Sarco Engineering an outperform vote.
82.5% of Melrose Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.0% of Spirax-Sarco Engineering shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Melrose Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Spirax-Sarco Engineering shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Spirax-Sarco Engineering has a net margin of 10.91% compared to Spirax-Sarco Engineering's net margin of -30.42%. Melrose Industries' return on equity of 15.81% beat Spirax-Sarco Engineering's return on equity.
Spirax-Sarco Engineering has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Melrose Industries.
Melrose Industries pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Spirax-Sarco Engineering pays an annual dividend of GBX 160 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Spirax-Sarco Engineering pays out 6,425.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Melrose Industries has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Spirax-Sarco Engineering has a beta of 0.71, suggesting that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Melrose Industries beats Spirax-Sarco Engineering on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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