BOOT vs. ELA, COST, BIG, BMPI, HAST, BILB, HVT, BCAP, POL, and AEO
Should you be buying Henry Boot stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Henry Boot include Eland Oil & Gas (ELA), Costain Group (COST), Big Technologies (BIG), BMO Managed Portfolio Trust PLC - Income Shares (BMPI), Henderson Alternative Strategies Trust (HAST), Bilby (BILB), Heavitree Brewery (HVT), Better Capital PCC Limited 2009 (BCAP.L) (BCAP), Polo Resources (POL), and Aeorema Communications (AEO). These companies are all part of the "retail" industry.
Henry Boot vs. Its Competitors
Eland Oil & Gas (LON:ELA) and Henry Boot (LON:BOOT) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, valuation and profitability.
15.7% of Henry Boot shares are held by institutional investors. 69.5% of Henry Boot shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Eland Oil & Gas pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.02 per share. Henry Boot pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Eland Oil & Gas pays out 0.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Henry Boot pays out 83.3% 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, Henry Boot had 1 more articles in the media than Eland Oil & Gas. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Henry Boot and 0 mentions for Eland Oil & Gas. Henry Boot's average media sentiment score of 0.09 beat Eland Oil & Gas' score of 0.00 indicating that Henry Boot is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Henry Boot has higher revenue and earnings than Eland Oil & Gas. Eland Oil & Gas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Henry Boot, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Henry Boot has a net margin of 3.96% compared to Eland Oil & Gas' net margin of 0.00%. Henry Boot's return on equity of 2.79% beat Eland Oil & Gas' return on equity.
Eland Oil & Gas received 258 more outperform votes than Henry Boot when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 82.40% of users gave Eland Oil & Gas an outperform vote while only 65.12% of users gave Henry Boot an outperform vote.
Summary
Henry Boot beats Eland Oil & Gas on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (LON:BOOT) was last updated on 6/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
