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J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC (SMJ) Competitors

GBX 125 +5.00 (+4.17%)
As of 06/12/2025 09:51 AM Eastern

SMJ vs. SFR, CTO, BILN, KINO, VANL, HERC, NEXS, GYG, TGP, and AUK

Should you be buying J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC include Severfield (SFR), TClarke (CTO), Billington (BILN), Kinovo (KINO), Van Elle (VANL), Hercules Site Services (HERC), Nexus Infrastructure (NEXS), GYG (GYG), Tekmar Group (TGP), and Aukett Swanke Group (AUK). These companies are all part of the "engineering & construction" industry.

J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC vs. Its Competitors

J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC (LON:SMJ) and Severfield (LON:SFR) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, risk, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership and dividends.

J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Severfield pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.5%. J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC pays out 69.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Severfield pays out 76.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC has a net margin of 7.60% compared to Severfield's net margin of 3.43%. Severfield's return on equity of 7.24% beat J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC7.60% 1.33% 0.82%
Severfield 3.43%7.24%4.69%

1.9% of J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.9% of Severfield shares are held by institutional investors. 81.2% of J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.4% of Severfield shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Severfield'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC Neutral
Severfield Neutral

J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC has a beta of 0.17, indicating that its stock price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Severfield has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Severfield received 156 more outperform votes than J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.09% of users gave Severfield an outperform vote while only 67.31% of users gave J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLCOutperform Votes
70
67.31%
Underperform Votes
34
32.69%
SeverfieldOutperform Votes
226
76.09%
Underperform Votes
71
23.91%

Severfield has higher revenue and earnings than J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC. Severfield is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC£21.24M2.25£1.61M£4.3328.90
Severfield£444.13M0.23£15.24M£5.256.63

Summary

Severfield beats J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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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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SMJ vs. The Competition

MetricJ. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLCEngineering & Construction IndustryIndustrials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£47.75M£2.64B£7.79B£2.91B
Dividend Yield2.58%3.02%4.56%4.90%
P/E Ratio28.9030.4025.52124.67
Price / Sales2.2537.06114.95243,321.08
Price / Cash2.0914.6126.8428.07
Price / Book0.392.764.234.70
Net Income£1.61M£82.90M£807.24M£5.91B
7 Day Performance2.46%-0.42%0.57%12.15%
1 Month PerformanceN/A6.52%8.97%16.09%
1 Year PerformanceN/A87.95%26.12%78.11%

J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SMJ
J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC
N/AGBX 125
+4.2%
N/A+0.0%£47.75M£21.24M28.90152
SFR
Severfield
N/AGBX 35.60
+1.7%
N/A-50.3%£103.96M£444.13M6.781,900Dividend Cut
CTO
TClarke
N/AN/AN/AN/A£84.08M£491M1,135.7130
BILN
Billington
N/AGBX 439.78
-0.1%
N/A-15.2%£55.32M£132.72M5.29463High Trading Volume
KINO
Kinovo
N/AGBX 85.60
+0.1%
GBX 95
+11.0%
+37.6%£51.79M£64.75M-84.24203
VANL
Van Elle
N/AGBX 36.50
-5.2%
N/A+5.4%£39.42M£141.18M9.22670News Coverage
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
HERC
Hercules Site Services
N/AGBX 48
flat
N/A+18.4%£39.22M£124.25M50.36560News Coverage
NEXS
Nexus Infrastructure
N/AGBX 163.90
+2.4%
N/A+7.6%£14.75M£63.25M-1.43406Gap Down
GYG
GYG
N/AN/AN/AN/A£13.99M£62.82M-2.42395News Coverage
Gap Down
TGP
Tekmar Group
N/AGBX 4.68
-2.6%
N/A-42.0%£6.15M£18.08M-1.37172
AUK
Aukett Swanke Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£5.46M£23.61M-6.3232,200Gap Down

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This page (LON:SMJ) was last updated on 6/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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