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Northern Bear (NTBR) Competitors

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GBX 87.11 -0.39 (-0.44%)
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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 business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation and risk.

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 4.6%. 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 share price is 79% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Northern Bear has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its share 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%

In the previous week, Titon had 3 more articles in the media than Northern Bear. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Titon and 0 mentions for Northern Bear. Titon's average media sentiment score of 1.48 beat Northern Bear's score of 0.00 indicating that Titon is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Titon Positive
Northern Bear Neutral

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£19.37M0.50-£980.29K-£8.71-9.87
Northern Bear£55.17M0.22£1.30M£9.499.18

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

Summary

Northern Bear beats Titon on 9 of the 15 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£11.98M£3.58B£7.57B£2.97B
Dividend Yield7.27%3.03%4.54%5.02%
P/E Ratio9.1853.8324.93151.20
Price / Sales0.2287.47115.26252,273.63
Price / Cash55.4417.0727.3527.97
Price / Book0.741.774.394.55
Net Income£1.30M£18.85B£791.63M£5.90B
7 Day Performance7.28%-0.37%1.88%1.80%
1 Month Performance14.09%-0.06%5.04%4.52%
1 Year Performance41.64%2.95%32.67%79.93%

Northern Bear Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NTBR
Northern Bear
N/AGBX 87.11
-0.4%
N/A+39.8%£11.98M£55.17M9.18411
TON
Titon
N/AGBX 87.50
+4.2%
N/A+13.8%£9.84M£19.37M-10.04183News Coverage
Insider Trade
HSM
Samuel Heath & Sons
N/AGBX 315
+1.6%
N/A+14.5%£7.97M£15.24M1,050.00141Dividend Cut
LIFS
LifeSafe
N/AGBX 7
flat
N/A-32.1%£3.35M£7.04M-1.4212
SFE
Safestyle UK
N/AN/AN/AN/A£444K£150.18M-4.5718,500
COD
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain
N/AGBX 98.23
+4.9%
N/A+26.0%£48.38B£4.56T17.05159,145Gap Up
TPK
Travis Perkins
N/AGBX 605.50
+2.1%
GBX 823.33
+36.0%
-27.8%£1.28B£4.77B-73.3119,172
FAN
Volution Group
1.4434 of 5 stars
GBX 598.55
+0.8%
GBX 700
+16.9%
+27.9%£1.18B£346.77M27.551,909
GEN
Genuit Group
1.6779 of 5 stars
GBX 387.50
+0.4%
GBX 535
+38.1%
-17.7%£961.12M£553.28M40.662,700News Coverage
Analyst Upgrade
Gap Up
TYMN
Tyman
N/AN/AGBX 400
+∞
N/A£775.94M£657.60M2,094.743,476
JHD
James Halstead
N/AGBX 160
-0.6%
N/A-13.2%£669.27M£275.88M16.12860

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This page (LON:NTBR) was last updated on 7/9/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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