NTBR vs. HSM, TON, 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 Samuel Heath & Sons (HSM), Titon (TON), 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.
Northern Bear (LON:NTBR) and Samuel Heath & Sons (LON:HSM) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Northern Bear pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. Samuel Heath & Sons pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share. Northern Bear pays out 42.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Samuel Heath & Sons pays out 4,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Northern Bear is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Northern Bear has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Samuel Heath & Sons has a beta of 0.04, indicating that its stock price is 96% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Northern Bear's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Samuel Heath & Sons'average media sentiment score.
Samuel Heath & Sons received 26 more outperform votes than Northern Bear when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.91% of users gave Samuel Heath & Sons an outperform vote while only 64.89% of users gave Northern Bear an outperform vote.
Samuel Heath & Sons has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Northern Bear. Samuel Heath & Sons is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Northern Bear, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Samuel Heath & Sons has a net margin of 5.04% compared to Northern Bear's net margin of 2.36%. Northern Bear's return on equity of 7.46% beat Samuel Heath & Sons' return on equity.
Summary
Northern Bear beats Samuel Heath & Sons on 7 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 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff