Heavitree Brewery (HVT) Competitors

Heavitree Brewery (LON:HVT) and Bilby (LON:BILB) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Is HVT or BILB more profitable?

Heavitree Brewery has a net margin of 17.99% compared to Bilby's net margin of 0.00%. Heavitree Brewery's return on equity of 7.95% beat Bilby's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Heavitree Brewery	17.99%	7.95%	3.05%
Bilby	N/A	N/A	N/A

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, HVT or BILB?

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

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Heavitree Brewery	£5.42M	1.40	£974.98K	£43.47	4.95
Bilby	£59.05M	0.00	N/A	£1.20	N/A

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer HVT or BILB?

Bilby received 93 more outperform votes than Heavitree Brewery when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.56% of users gave Bilby an outperform vote while only 64.95% of users gave Heavitree Brewery an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Heavitree Brewery	Outperform Votes 63 64.95%	Underperform Votes 34 35.05%
Bilby	Outperform Votes 156 72.56%	Underperform Votes 59 27.44%

Does the media favor HVT or BILB?

In the previous week, Bilby had 1 more articles in the media than Heavitree Brewery. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Bilby and 0 mentions for Heavitree Brewery. Heavitree Brewery's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Bilby'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Heavitree Brewery	Neutral
Bilby	Neutral

Summary

Bilby beats Heavitree Brewery on 5 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.