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Creightons (CRL) Competitors

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GBX 38.40 -0.10 (-0.26%)
As of 07/3/2025 12:04 PM Eastern

CRL vs. TRU, TUNG, STAF, ADT, ULS, FCCN, FA, ROL, ARC, and MAST

Should you be buying Creightons stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Creightons include TruFin (TRU), Tungsten (TUNG), Staffline Group (STAF), AdEPT Technology Group (ADT), ULS Technology (ULS), French Connection Group (FCCN), FireAngel Safety Technology Group (FA), Rotala (ROL), Arcontech Group (ARC), and MAST Energy Developments (MAST). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.

Creightons vs. Its Competitors

Creightons (LON:CRL) and TruFin (LON:TRU) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.

In the previous week, Creightons' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled TruFin'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Creightons Neutral
TruFin Neutral

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Creightons£53.19M0.49-£3.53M-£5.15-7.45
TruFin£34.97M2.68£2.55M£2.4136.75

Creightons has a beta of 0.47, suggesting that its share price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TruFin has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.

TruFin has a net margin of 7.29% compared to Creightons' net margin of -6.63%. TruFin's return on equity of 6.83% beat Creightons' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Creightons-6.63% -14.70% 2.35%
TruFin 7.29%6.83%14.86%

15.6% of Creightons shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.6% of TruFin shares are owned by institutional investors. 48.1% of Creightons shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 23.1% of TruFin shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

TruFin beats Creightons on 9 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

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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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CRL vs. The Competition

MetricCreightonsHousehold & Personal Products IndustryDefensive SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£26.28M£15.09B£6.89B£2.97B
Dividend Yield0.01%2.41%3.16%5.02%
P/E Ratio-7.4518.3113.21146.59
Price / Sales0.49409.68100.66240,166.99
Price / Cash26.8217.16144.7427.97
Price / Book1.193.064.325.32
Net Income-£3.53M£912.33M£999.43M£5.90B
7 Day Performance-6.34%-0.91%0.72%0.90%
1 Month Performance-6.34%-4.60%-0.16%5.18%
1 Year Performance76.55%100.20%66.91%80.75%

Creightons Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CRL
Creightons
N/AGBX 38.40
-0.3%
N/A+81.6%£26.28M£53.19M-7.4521,400
TRU
TruFin
N/AGBX 87.18
-1.5%
N/A+16.3%£92.38M£34.97M36.2412,200
TUNG
Tungsten
N/AN/AN/AN/A£69.09M£36.39M-19.50200
STAF
Staffline Group
N/AGBX 46
flat
N/A+24.7%£59.67M£896.86M-3.162,300
ADT
AdEPT Technology Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£50.21M£68.03M-1,179.4125,000
ULS
ULS Technology
N/AN/AN/AN/A£47.36M£20.22M3.13100Gap Up
High Trading Volume
FCCN
French Connection Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£28.55M£87.80M-3.791
FA
FireAngel Safety Technology Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£21.92M£53.35M-181.255,500High Trading Volume
ROL
Rotala
N/AN/AN/AN/A£19.54M£98.52M-3,150.0017,500
ARC
Arcontech Group
N/AGBX 90
+1.1%
N/A-2.8%£12.33M£2.97M11.591,800
MAST
MAST Energy Developments
N/AGBX 1.10
+1.9%
N/A+809.7%£4.69M£1.04M-110.0029,900

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This page (LON:CRL) was last updated on 7/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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