CTO vs. BILN, SMJ, VANL, KINO, SFR, COST, GFRD, MPAC, LORD, and BMS
Should you be buying TClarke stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TClarke include Billington (BILN), J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC (SMJ), Van Elle (VANL), Kinovo (KINO), Severfield (SFR), Costain Group (COST), Galliford Try (GFRD), Mpac Group (MPAC), Lords Group Trading (LORD), and Braemar (BMS). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
TClarke (LON:CTO) and Billington (LON:BILN) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
13.5% of TClarke shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.3% of Billington shares are owned by institutional investors. 53.7% of TClarke shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 47.3% of Billington shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Billington received 31 more outperform votes than TClarke when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.68% of users gave Billington an outperform vote while only 52.50% of users gave TClarke an outperform vote.
TClarke pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Billington pays an annual dividend of GBX 16 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. TClarke pays out 4,285.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. 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.
Billington has lower revenue, but higher earnings than TClarke. Billington is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TClarke, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Billington had 1 more articles in the media than TClarke. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Billington and 2 mentions for TClarke. Billington's average media sentiment score of 0.19 beat TClarke's score of 0.00 indicating that Billington is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Billington has a net margin of 7.16% compared to TClarke's net margin of 1.32%. Billington's return on equity of 21.63% beat TClarke's return on equity.
TClarke has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Billington has a beta of 0.72, suggesting that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Billington beats TClarke on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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