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Billington (BILN) Competitors

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GBX 389 +11.50 (+3.05%)
As of 05/21/2025 11:39 AM Eastern

BILN vs. SFR, CTO, KINO, SMJ, VANL, HERC, NEXS, GYG, TGP, and AUK

Should you be buying Billington stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Billington include Severfield (SFR), TClarke (CTO), Kinovo (KINO), J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC (SMJ), Van Elle (VANL), Hercules Site Services (HERC), Nexus Infrastructure (NEXS), GYG (GYG), Tekmar Group (TGP), and Aukett Swanke Group (AUK). These companies are all part of the "engineering & construction" industry.

Billington vs.

Billington (LON:BILN) and Severfield (LON:SFR) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking and analyst recommendations.

Severfield has higher revenue and earnings than Billington. Billington is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Severfield, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Billington£132.72M0.37£10.46M£83.124.68
Severfield£444.13M0.20£15.24M£5.255.89

Billington has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Severfield has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Billington pays an annual dividend of GBX 20 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Severfield pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.9%. Billington pays out 24.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Severfield pays out 76.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

In the previous week, Severfield had 1 more articles in the media than Billington. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Severfield and 0 mentions for Billington. Severfield's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Billington's score of 0.00 indicating that Severfield is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Billington Neutral
Severfield Positive

44.1% of Billington shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.9% of Severfield shares are owned by institutional investors. 34.8% of Billington shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.4% of Severfield shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Billington has a net margin of 7.88% compared to Severfield's net margin of 3.43%. Billington's return on equity of 20.60% beat Severfield's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Billington7.88% 20.60% 10.37%
Severfield 3.43%7.24%4.69%

Severfield received 111 more outperform votes than Billington when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.09% of users gave Severfield an outperform vote while only 74.68% of users gave Billington an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
BillingtonOutperform Votes
115
74.68%
Underperform Votes
39
25.32%
SeverfieldOutperform Votes
226
76.09%
Underperform Votes
71
23.91%

Summary

Severfield beats Billington on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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BILN vs. The Competition

MetricBillingtonEngineering & Construction IndustryIndustrials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£48.94M£2.59B£7.67B£2.68B
Dividend Yield2.64%3.02%4.58%5.05%
P/E Ratio4.6828.5023.14134.32
Price / Sales0.3736.6090.07203,702.46
Price / Cash5.0914.6126.9428.02
Price / Book0.932.723.993.80
Net Income£10.46M£82.90M£807.24M£5.89B
7 Day Performance2.37%4.07%1.07%7.78%
1 Month Performance11.24%11.18%11.79%29.45%
1 Year Performance-34.49%87.96%18.14%119.74%

Billington Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BILN
Billington
N/AGBX 389
+3.0%
N/A-34.5%£48.94M£132.72M4.68463
SFR
Severfield
N/AGBX 31.80
+1.3%
N/A-56.7%£92.86M£444.13M6.061,900Dividend Cut
Gap Up
CTO
TClarke
N/AN/AN/AN/A£84.08M£491M1,135.7130
KINO
Kinovo
0.96 of 5 stars
GBX 85.20
+0.2%
GBX 95
+11.5%
+53.9%£51.55M£64.75M-83.84203
SMJ
J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC
N/AGBX 120
flat
N/A-4.0%£45.84M£21.24M27.74152Positive News
VANL
Van Elle
N/AGBX 40
+2.6%
N/A+5.1%£43.20M£141.18M10.11670
HERC
Hercules Site Services
N/AGBX 49.91
+1.9%
N/A+36.1%£40.78M£124.25M52.37560News Coverage
NEXS
Nexus Infrastructure
N/AGBX 161
-0.9%
N/A+52.4%£14.49M£63.25M-1.40406Earnings Report
GYG
GYG
N/AN/AN/AN/A£13.99M£62.82M-2.42395Gap Down
TGP
Tekmar Group
N/AGBX 4.65
-3.1%
N/A-49.7%£6.12M£18.08M-1.36172
AUK
Aukett Swanke Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£5.46M£23.61M-6.3232,200Gap Down

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This page (LON:BILN) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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