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Northern Bear (NTBR) Competitors

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GBX 65.25 -0.25 (-0.38%)
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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 companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.

In the previous week, Northern Bear's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Samuel Heath & Sons'average media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Northern Bear Neutral
Samuel Heath & Sons Neutral

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Northern Bear£55.17M0.16£1.30M£9.496.88
Samuel Heath & Sons£15.24M0.00£1.31M£0.30N/A

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.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Northern BearOutperform Votes
61
64.89%
Underperform Votes
33
35.11%
Samuel Heath & SonsOutperform Votes
87
65.91%
Underperform Votes
45
34.09%

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Northern Bear2.36% 7.46% 3.83%
Samuel Heath & Sons 5.04%6.57%3.54%

Northern Bear has a beta of 0.5, suggesting that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Samuel Heath & Sons has a beta of 0.04, suggesting that its stock price is 96% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Northern Bear pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.1%. 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.

Summary

Northern Bear beats Samuel Heath & Sons on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

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NTBR vs. The Competition

MetricNorthern BearBuilding Products & Equipment IndustryIndustrials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£8.97M£3.83B£7.31B£2.59B
Dividend Yield7.27%3.03%3.56%4.97%
P/E Ratio6.8822.1621.19133.69
Price / Sales0.1686.9184.39239,757.82
Price / Cash55.4418.1326.9028.12
Price / Book0.551.753.794.55
Net Income£1.30M£20.20B£808.20M£5.84B
7 Day Performance3.57%3.82%4.81%3.43%
1 Month Performance-0.76%-3.37%3.16%10.59%
1 Year Performance11.54%1.80%15.90%117.06%

Northern Bear Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NTBR
Northern Bear
N/AGBX 65.25
-0.4%
N/A+7.6%£8.97M£55.17M6.88411
HSM
Samuel Heath & Sons
N/AN/AN/AN/A£8.50M£15.24M1,120.00141Dividend Cut
Gap Up
TON
Titon
N/AGBX 71
flat
N/AN/A£7.99M£19.37M-8.15183Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
LIFS
LifeSafe
N/AGBX 7.11
-5.2%
N/A-36.3%£3.40M£7.04M-1.4412Earnings Report
Gap Down
SFE
Safestyle UK
N/AN/AN/AN/A£444,000.00£150.18M-4.5718,500
COD
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain
N/AGBX 89.63
-0.6%
N/A+27.4%£44.15B£4.56T15.56159,145News Coverage
Gap Up
TPK
Travis Perkins
1.8131 of 5 stars
GBX 527
-0.1%
GBX 900
+70.8%
-24.8%£1.12B£4.77B-63.8019,172Analyst Forecast
FAN
Volution Group
0.9261 of 5 stars
GBX 525.10
-0.7%
GBX 700
+33.3%
+29.4%£1.04B£346.77M24.171,909
GEN
Genuit Group
2.0488 of 5 stars
GBX 362
+3.0%
GBX 545
+50.6%
-12.7%£897.87M£553.28M37.982,700News Coverage
TYMN
Tyman
N/AN/AGBX 400
+∞
N/A£775.94M£657.60M2,094.743,476
JHD
James Halstead
N/AGBX 145.50
-1.4%
N/A-23.0%£608.62M£275.88M14.66860News Coverage

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