BILN vs. SMJ, VANL, CTO, KINO, HERC, RAI, TGP, SFR, COST, and MANO
Should you be buying Billington stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Billington include J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC (SMJ), Van Elle (VANL), TClarke (CTO), Kinovo (KINO), Hercules Site Services (HERC), RA International Group (RAI), Tekmar Group (TGP), Severfield (SFR), Costain Group (COST), and Manolete Partners (MANO). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Billington (LON:BILN) and J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC (LON:SMJ) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, dividends, risk and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Billington had 2 more articles in the media than J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Billington and 0 mentions for J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC. Billington's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC's score of 0.00 indicating that Billington is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
Billington pays an annual dividend of GBX 16 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. 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.
34.3% of Billington shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.9% of J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC shares are owned by institutional investors. 47.3% of Billington shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 80.6% of J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Billington has a beta of 0.72, suggesting that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC has a beta of 0.14, suggesting that its stock price is 86% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Billington has higher revenue and earnings than J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC.
Billington has a net margin of 7.16% compared to J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC's net margin of 1.54%. Billington's return on equity of 21.63% beat J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC's return on equity.
Summary
Billington beats J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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