Head to Head Review: BELIMO (BLHWF) and Its Peers

BELIMO (OTCMKTS:BLHWF) is one of 94 public companies in the “Building Products” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare BELIMO to related companies based on the strength of its risk, dividends, earnings, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations for BELIMO and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
BELIMO	0	1	4	0	2.80
BELIMO Competitors	692	3763	4885	220	2.48

As a group, “Building Products” companies have a potential upside of 20.91%. Given BELIMO’s peers higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe BELIMO has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares BELIMO and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
BELIMO	N/A	N/A	11.71
BELIMO Competitors	$4.00 billion	$4.73 billion	43.17

BELIMO’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than BELIMO. BELIMO is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Dividends

BELIMO pays an annual dividend of $65.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. BELIMO pays out 63.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Building Products” companies pay a dividend yield of 6.8% and pay out 37.0% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. BELIMO lags its peers as a dividend stock, given its lower dividend yield and higher payout ratio.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

35.4% of BELIMO shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.6% of shares of all “Building Products” companies are owned by institutional investors. 10.3% of shares of all “Building Products” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares BELIMO and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
BELIMO	N/A	N/A	N/A
BELIMO Competitors	3.30%	43.64%	5.06%

Summary

BELIMO peers beat BELIMO on 11 of the 13 factors compared.

BELIMO Company Profile

BELIMO Holding AG, together with its subsidiaries, develops, produces, distributes, and sells damper actuators, control valves, sensors, and meters for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, and the Asia Pacific. It offers HVAC damper actuators, including non fail-safe and fail safe actuators; fast running and linear actuators; fire damper and smoke control actuators; variable air volume; valve actuators; actuators for harsh environmental conditions; and damper actuator accessories. The company also provides various control valves, such as energy, pressure independent control, zone, characterised control, ball, and butterfly valves; valve actuators, as well as electrical and mechanical valve accessories. In addition, it offers measurement and monitoring sensors and meters, which include duct and outdoor sensors for air; water pipe sensors; room units; gas monitoring devices; and thermal and energy meters, as well as sensors accessories consisting of thermowells, mounting plates, brackets, and clamps, and various adaptor connectors. Further, the company provides systems solutions that includes energy valve, internet of things actuators, air flow and pressure control, ZoneEase variable air volume, and system mechanical accessories, and terminal cover. BELIMO Holding AG was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Hinwil, Switzerland.