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Northern Bear (NTBR) Competitors

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GBX 99 +4.50 (+4.76%)
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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 compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations and risk.

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 company is poised for long-term growth.

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%

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 4.0%. 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, Northern Bear had 2 more articles in the media than Titon. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Northern Bear and 1 mentions for Titon. Northern Bear's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Titon's score of -1.63 indicating that Northern Bear is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Titon
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Negative
Northern Bear
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

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 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£55.17M0.25£1.30M£9.4910.44

Summary

Northern Bear beats Titon on 11 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£13.61M£3.65B£7.62B£3.02B
Dividend Yield7.27%3.03%4.55%5.02%
P/E Ratio10.4453.8625.26165.88
Price / Sales0.2589.46104.17285,131.44
Price / Cash55.4417.0727.5927.97
Price / Book0.841.814.434.46
Net Income£1.30M£18.85B£797.00M£5.90B
7 Day Performance6.45%0.14%0.93%3.82%
1 Month Performance26.84%2.83%6.28%9.81%
1 Year Performance65.00%1.91%30.24%74.29%

Northern Bear Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NTBR
Northern Bear
N/AGBX 99
+4.8%
N/A+62.6%£13.61M£55.17M10.44411News Coverage
Earnings Report
High Trading Volume
TON
Titon
N/AGBX 90.50
+0.6%
N/A+24.5%£10.18M£19.37M-10.38183News Coverage
Positive News
HSM
Samuel Heath & Sons
N/AGBX 315
+1.6%
N/A+8.6%£7.97M£15.24M1,050.00141Dividend Cut
LIFS
LifeSafe
N/AGBX 6.75
flat
N/AN/A£3.23M£7.04M-1.3712
SFE
Safestyle UK
N/AN/AN/AN/A£444K£150.18M-4.5718,500
COD
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain
N/AGBX 100.19
+3.7%
N/A+26.3%£49.35B£4.56T17.39159,145
TPK
Travis Perkins
N/AGBX 578.50
-0.5%
GBX 823.33
+42.3%
-37.9%£1.22B£4.77B-70.0419,172
FAN
Volution Group
0.9339 of 5 stars
GBX 619
-0.6%
GBX 700
+13.1%
+26.8%£1.22B£346.77M28.491,909News Coverage
High Trading Volume
GEN
Genuit Group
1.4521 of 5 stars
GBX 387
-1.0%
GBX 520
+34.4%
-17.3%£959.88M£553.28M40.602,700Gap Up
TYMN
Tyman
N/AN/AGBX 400
+∞
N/A£775.94M£657.60M2,094.743,476
JHD
James Halstead
N/AGBX 157
flat
N/A-16.9%£656.72M£275.88M15.82860

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This page (LON:NTBR) was last updated on 7/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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