BILN vs. SMJ, CTO, VANL, KINO, HERC, SFR, COST, GFRD, INSE, and DIA
Should you be buying Billington stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Billington include J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC (SMJ), TClarke (CTO), Van Elle (VANL), Kinovo (KINO), Hercules Site Services (HERC), Severfield (SFR), Costain Group (COST), Galliford Try (GFRD), Inspired (INSE), and Dialight (DIA). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC (LON:SMJ) and Billington (LON:BILN) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, dividends, profitability, risk, valuation, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Billington had 2 more articles in the media than J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Billington and 2 mentions for J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC. Billington's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC's score of -0.20 indicating that J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Billington has higher revenue and earnings than J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC.
1.9% of J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.3% of Billington shares are owned by institutional investors. 80.6% of J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 47.3% of Billington shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Billington has a net margin of 7.16% compared to Billington's net margin of 1.54%. J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC's return on equity of 21.63% beat Billington's return on equity.
J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC has a beta of 0.14, meaning that its share price is 86% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Billington has a beta of 0.72, meaning that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.
J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Billington pays an annual dividend of GBX 16 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Billington pays out 2,857.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Billington received 45 more outperform votes than J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.68% of users gave Billington an outperform vote while only 67.31% of users gave J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC an outperform vote.
Summary
Billington beats J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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