CTO vs. BILN, SMJ, VANL, KINO, SFR, COST, GFRD, MPAC, AVAP, and BMS
Should you be buying TClarke stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TClarke include Billington (BILN), J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC (SMJ), Van Elle (VANL), Kinovo (KINO), Severfield (SFR), Costain Group (COST), Galliford Try (GFRD), Mpac Group (MPAC), Avation (AVAP), and Braemar (BMS). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Billington (LON:BILN) and TClarke (LON:CTO) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation and institutional ownership.
Billington has a beta of 0.72, meaning that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TClarke has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Billington received 31 more outperform votes than TClarke when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.68% of users gave Billington an outperform vote while only 52.50% of users gave TClarke an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Billington and Billington both had 1 articles in the media. Billington's average media sentiment score of 0.44 beat TClarke's score of -0.46 indicating that TClarke is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
34.3% of Billington shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.5% of TClarke shares are owned by institutional investors. 47.3% of Billington shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 53.7% of TClarke shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Billington pays an annual dividend of GBX 16 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. TClarke pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. 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. TClarke pays out 4,285.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Billington has higher earnings, but lower revenue than TClarke. Billington is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TClarke, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Billington has a net margin of 7.16% compared to Billington's net margin of 1.32%. TClarke's return on equity of 21.63% beat Billington's return on equity.
Summary
Billington beats TClarke on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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