LifeSafe (LIFS) Competitors

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

Do insiders & institutionals believe in LIFS or NTBR?

40.4% of LifeSafe shares are held by institutional investors. 35.7% of LifeSafe shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 47.7% of Northern Bear shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, LIFS or NTBR?

Northern Bear has higher revenue and earnings than LifeSafe. LifeSafe is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Northern Bear, 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
LifeSafe	£7.04M	0.51	-£2.36M	-£4.94	-1.52
Northern Bear	£55.17M	0.17	£1.30M	£9.49	7.38

Does the MarketBeat Community favor LIFS or NTBR?

Northern Bear received 61 more outperform votes than LifeSafe when rated by MarketBeat users.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
LifeSafe	N/A	N/A
Northern Bear	Outperform Votes 61 64.89%	Underperform Votes 33 35.11%

Does the media prefer LIFS or NTBR?

In the previous week, LifeSafe's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Northern Bear'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
LifeSafe	Neutral
Northern Bear	Neutral

Which has more risk and volatility, LIFS or NTBR?

LifeSafe has a beta of 0.27, indicating that its share price is 73% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Northern Bear has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is LIFS or NTBR more profitable?

Northern Bear has a net margin of 2.36% compared to LifeSafe's net margin of -33.55%. Northern Bear's return on equity of 7.46% beat LifeSafe's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
LifeSafe	-33.55%	-75.48%	-33.83%
Northern Bear	2.36%	7.46%	3.83%

Summary

Northern Bear beats LifeSafe on 10 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.