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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.

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

Samuel Heath & Sons received 26 more outperform votes than Northern Bear when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.91% of users gave Samuel Heath & Sons an outperform vote while only 64.89% of users gave Northern Bear an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Northern BearOutperform Votes
61
64.89%
Underperform Votes
33
35.11%
Samuel Heath & SonsOutperform Votes
87
65.91%
Underperform Votes
45
34.09%

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

Company Overall Sentiment
Northern Bear Neutral
Samuel Heath & Sons Neutral

Northern Bear pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. Samuel Heath & Sons pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share. Northern Bear pays out 42.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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 is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Samuel Heath & Sons has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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
Northern Bear£55.17M0.17£1.30M£9.497.24
Samuel Heath & Sons£15.24M0.00£1.31M£0.30N/A

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
Northern Bear2.36% 7.46% 3.83%
Samuel Heath & Sons 5.04%6.57%3.54%

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

Summary

Northern Bear beats Samuel Heath & Sons on 7 of the 12 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£7.34M£3.81B£7.63B£2.66B
Dividend Yield3.15%3.03%4.58%5.05%
P/E Ratio966.6722.2723.14129.21
Price / SalesN/A89.6390.54221,406.01
Price / Cash3.2818.1326.9428.02
Price / BookN/A1.803.973.79
Net Income£1.31M£20.20B£807.24M£5.88B

Samuel Heath & Sons Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
HSM
Samuel Heath & Sons
N/AN/AN/AN/A£7.34M£15.24M966.67141Dividend Cut
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
NTBR
Northern Bear
N/AGBX 68.75
+0.4%
N/A+13.8%£9.45M£55.17M7.25411Gap Up
TON
Titon
N/AGBX 70
flat
N/A-2.5%£7.87M£19.37M-8.03183Gap Up
LIFS
LifeSafe
N/AGBX 7.50
flat
N/AN/A£3.59M£7.04M-1.5212
SFE
Safestyle UK
N/AN/AN/AN/A£444,000.00£150.18M-4.5718,500
COD
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain
N/AGBX 100.98
+5.4%
N/A+23.2%£49.74B£4.56T17.53159,145
TPK
Travis Perkins
2.4527 of 5 stars
GBX 629.50
+1.0%
GBX 823.33
+30.8%
-25.8%£1.33B£4.77B-76.2119,172News Coverage
FAN
Volution Group
1.1676 of 5 stars
GBX 622.15
+0.7%
GBX 700
+12.5%
+36.9%£1.23B£346.77M28.641,909News Coverage
Gap Down
GEN
Genuit Group
1.7868 of 5 stars
GBX 402
+0.6%
GBX 545
+35.6%
-14.8%£997.08M£553.28M42.182,700Analyst Forecast
TYMN
Tyman
N/AN/AGBX 400
+∞
N/A£775.94M£657.60M2,094.743,476
JHD
James Halstead
N/AGBX 168.50
+2.1%
N/A-17.7%£704.82M£275.88M16.98860News Coverage

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This page (LON:HSM) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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