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Northern Bear (NTBR) Competitors

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GBX 95.02 -0.98 (-1.02%)
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NTBR vs. TON, HSM, LIFS, SFE, COD, TPK, FAN, GEN, TYMN, and JHD

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), 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.

Northern Bear vs. Its Competitors

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

28.3% of Titon shares are owned by institutional investors. 63.7% of Titon shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 47.7% of Northern Bear shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

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

Company Overall Sentiment
Titon Neutral
Northern Bear Neutral

Titon pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Northern Bear pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Titon pays out -11.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Northern Bear pays out 42.2% 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.

Titon has a beta of 0.21, meaning that its stock price is 79% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Northern Bear has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Titon-5.06% -7.84% -2.67%
Northern Bear 2.36%7.46%3.83%

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Titon£19.37M0.55-£980.29K-£8.71-10.90
Northern Bear£55.17M0.24£1.30M£9.4910.02

Summary

Northern Bear beats Titon on 9 of the 13 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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NTBR vs. The Competition

MetricNorthern BearBuilding Products & Equipment IndustryIndustrials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£13.07M£3.41B£7.70B£3.18B
Dividend Yield7.27%3.03%4.55%5.04%
P/E Ratio10.0256.1226.12166.92
Price / Sales0.2483.61101.31448,413.15
Price / Cash55.4417.0728.6227.93
Price / Book0.801.714.136.35
Net Income£1.30M£18.85B£796.90M£5.89B
7 Day Performance-2.40%-0.64%1.27%0.76%
1 Month Performance-7.57%-4.03%0.50%49.50%
1 Year Performance54.10%3.01%28.07%141.61%

Northern Bear Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NTBR
Northern Bear
N/AGBX 95.02
-1.0%
N/A+58.9%£13.07M£55.17M10.02411
TON
Titon
N/AGBX 86.33
-4.1%
N/A+33.6%£9.71M£19.37M-9.91183Gap Up
HSM
Samuel Heath & Sons
N/AGBX 349.85
+4.4%
N/A-12.5%£8.85M£15.24M1,166.17141Dividend Cut
Gap Up
LIFS
LifeSafe
N/AGBX 3.25
flat
N/A-74.5%£1.56M£7.04M-0.6612Insider Trade
SFE
Safestyle UK
N/AN/AN/AN/A£444K£150.18M-4.5718,500
COD
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain
N/AGBX 98.16
-3.9%
N/A+20.9%£48.35B£4.56T17.04159,145
TPK
Travis Perkins
0.6349 of 5 stars
GBX 631
+2.4%
GBX 660
+4.6%
-32.3%£1.34B£4.77B-76.3919,172
FAN
Volution Group
0.9109 of 5 stars
GBX 653
+0.8%
GBX 740
+13.3%
+15.2%£1.29B£346.77M30.061,909
GEN
Genuit Group
1.6048 of 5 stars
GBX 367
+2.2%
GBX 506.67
+38.1%
-23.7%£910.27M£553.28M38.512,700Gap Up
TYMN
Tyman
N/AN/AN/AN/A£775.94M£657.60M2,094.743,476
JHD
James Halstead
N/AGBX 144
+0.7%
N/A-22.0%£602.34M£275.88M14.51860News Coverage

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