LORD vs. BRCK, SHI, FLO, BMT, BMTO, SLNG, FERG, DPLM, RS1, and GFTU
Should you be buying Lords Group Trading stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lords Group Trading include Brickability Group (BRCK), SIG (SHI), Flowtech Fluidpower (FLO), Braime Group (BMT), Braime Group (BMTO), H C Slingsby (SLNG), Ferguson (FERG), Diploma (DPLM), RS Group (RS1), and Grafton Group (GFTU). These companies are all part of the "industrial distribution" industry.
Lords Group Trading vs. Its Competitors
Lords Group Trading (LON:LORD) and Brickability Group (LON:BRCK) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, risk, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Lords Group Trading presently has a consensus price target of GBX 80, suggesting a potential upside of 100.00%. Given Lords Group Trading's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Lords Group Trading is more favorable than Brickability Group.
Brickability Group has a net margin of 2.59% compared to Lords Group Trading's net margin of -0.40%. Brickability Group's return on equity of 8.24% beat Lords Group Trading's return on equity.
In the previous week, Lords Group Trading had 2 more articles in the media than Brickability Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Lords Group Trading and 0 mentions for Brickability Group. Lords Group Trading's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Brickability Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Lords Group Trading is being referred to more favorably in the media.
28.4% of Lords Group Trading shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.1% of Brickability Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 63.2% of Lords Group Trading shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 38.1% of Brickability Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Brickability Group has higher revenue and earnings than Lords Group Trading. Lords Group Trading is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brickability Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lords Group Trading pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Brickability Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Lords Group Trading pays out -178.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brickability Group pays out 59.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Lords Group Trading is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Lords Group Trading has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brickability Group has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Brickability Group beats Lords Group Trading on 10 of the 18 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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This page (LON:LORD) was last updated on 8/29/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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