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 superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Titon pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Northern Bear pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. 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.
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.
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.
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.
28.3% of Titon shares are owned by institutional investors. 63.7% of Titon shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 47.7% of Northern Bear shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
Summary
Northern Bear beats Titon on 9 of the 14 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 7/7/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff