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Samuel Heath & Sons (HSM) Competitors

HSM vs. NTBR, TON, LIFS, SFE, COD, TPK, FAN, GEN, TYMN, and JHD

Should you be buying Samuel Heath & Sons stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Samuel Heath & Sons include Northern Bear (NTBR), Titon (TON), LifeSafe (LIFS), Safestyle UK (SFE), Compagnie de Saint-Gobain (COD), Travis Perkins (TPK), Volution Group (FAN), Genuit Group (GEN), Tyman (TYMN), and James Halstead (JHD). These companies are all part of the "building products & equipment" industry.

Samuel Heath & Sons vs. Its Competitors

Samuel Heath & Sons (LON:HSM) and Northern Bear (LON:NTBR) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and profitability.

Samuel Heath & Sons has a beta of 0.04, indicating that its stock price is 96% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Northern Bear has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Samuel Heath & Sons has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Northern Bear. Samuel Heath & Sons is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Northern Bear, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Samuel Heath & Sons£15.24M0.00£1.31M£0.30N/A
Northern Bear£55.17M0.21£1.30M£9.498.80

Samuel Heath & Sons pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share. Northern Bear pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Samuel Heath & Sons pays out 4,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Northern Bear pays out 42.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Northern Bear is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

In the previous week, Samuel Heath & Sons' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Northern Bear'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Samuel Heath & Sons Neutral
Northern Bear Neutral

Samuel Heath & Sons has a net margin of 5.04% compared to Northern Bear's net margin of 2.36%. Northern Bear's return on equity of 7.46% beat Samuel Heath & Sons' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Samuel Heath & Sons5.04% 6.57% 3.54%
Northern Bear 2.36%7.46%3.83%

Summary

Northern Bear beats Samuel Heath & Sons on 7 of the 10 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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HSM vs. The Competition

MetricSamuel Heath & SonsBuilding Products & Equipment IndustryIndustrials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£7.97M£3.38B£7.58B£2.96B
Dividend Yield3.15%3.03%4.53%5.02%
P/E Ratio1,050.0053.8625.01147.88
Price / SalesN/A87.28120.80258,917.23
Price / Cash3.2817.0727.4427.97
Price / BookN/A1.784.364.61
Net Income£1.31M£18.85B£791.63M£5.90B
7 Day PerformanceN/A0.85%2.17%1.04%
1 Month PerformanceN/A1.75%5.03%4.36%
1 Year Performance14.55%4.27%31.99%82.36%

Samuel Heath & Sons Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
HSM
Samuel Heath & Sons
N/AN/AN/A+14.5%£7.97M£15.24M1,050.00141Dividend Cut
NTBR
Northern Bear
N/AGBX 83.50
+1.8%
N/A+36.9%£11.48M£55.17M8.80411
TON
Titon
N/AGBX 90
+6.5%
N/A+20.0%£10.12M£19.37M-10.33183High Trading Volume
LIFS
LifeSafe
N/AGBX 6.75
-3.6%
N/A-29.5%£3.23M£7.04M-1.3712
SFE
Safestyle UK
N/AN/AN/AN/A£444K£150.18M-4.5718,500
COD
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain
N/AGBX 92.60
-1.0%
N/A+19.2%£45.61B£4.56T16.07159,145News Coverage
Gap Up
TPK
Travis Perkins
N/AGBX 595
-1.7%
GBX 823.33
+38.4%
-27.4%£1.26B£4.77B-72.0319,172Gap Down
FAN
Volution Group
1.4807 of 5 stars
GBX 593
-1.2%
GBX 700
+18.0%
+26.0%£1.17B£346.77M27.301,909News Coverage
GEN
Genuit Group
2.2883 of 5 stars
GBX 384
-0.9%
GBX 535
+39.3%
-16.3%£952.44M£553.28M40.292,700News Coverage
TYMN
Tyman
N/AN/AGBX 400
+∞
N/A£775.94M£657.60M2,094.743,476
JHD
James Halstead
N/AGBX 159
-0.6%
N/A-10.7%£665.09M£275.88M16.02860News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Up

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This page (LON:HSM) was last updated on 7/6/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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