NTBR vs. TON, HSM, LIFS, SFE, TPK, FAN, GEN, TYMN, JHD, and COD
Should you be buying Northern Bear stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Northern Bear include Titon (TON), Samuel Heath & Sons (HSM), LifeSafe (LIFS), Safestyle UK (SFE), Travis Perkins (TPK), Volution Group (FAN), Genuit Group (GEN), Tyman (TYMN), James Halstead (JHD), and Compagnie de Saint-Gobain (COD). These companies are all part of the "building products & equipment" industry.
Northern Bear vs. Its Competitors
Titon (LON:TON) and Northern Bear (LON:NTBR) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Northern Bear has higher revenue and earnings than Titon. Titon is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Northern Bear, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
12.2% of Titon shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.9% of Northern Bear shares are held by institutional investors. 20.5% of Titon shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 98.8% of Northern Bear shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Northern Bear has a net margin of 2.36% compared to Titon's net margin of -5.06%. Northern Bear's return on equity of 7.46% beat Titon's return on equity.
In the previous week, Titon had 1 more articles in the media than Northern Bear. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Titon and 0 mentions for Northern Bear. Titon's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Northern Bear'saverage media sentiment score.
Titon has a beta of 0.21, indicating that its stock price is 79% 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.
Summary
Northern Bear beats Titon on 9 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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This page (LON:NTBR) was last updated on 10/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
