BILN vs. SFR, CTO, SMJ, VANL, HERC, GYG, NEXS, TGP, CEPS, and AUK
Should you be buying Billington stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Billington include Severfield (SFR), TClarke (CTO), J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC (SMJ), Van Elle (VANL), Hercules Site Services (HERC), GYG (GYG), Nexus Infrastructure (NEXS), Tekmar Group (TGP), Ceps (CEPS), and Aukett Swanke Group (AUK). These companies are all part of the "engineering & construction" industry.
Billington vs. Its Competitors
Severfield (LON:SFR) and Billington (LON:BILN) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and valuation.
Severfield has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Billington has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Severfield's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Billington'saverage media sentiment score.
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.
76.3% of Severfield shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.6% of Billington shares are held by institutional investors. 3.0% of Severfield shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.0% of Billington shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Severfield has higher revenue and earnings than Billington. Severfield is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Billington, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Severfield pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Billington pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Severfield pays out -79.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Billington pays out 32.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Severfield is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Billington beats Severfield on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (LON:BILN) was last updated on 9/19/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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