BILN vs. CTO, SMJ, VANL, KINO, HERC, COST, SFR, GFRD, DIA, and HSS
Should you be buying Billington stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Billington include TClarke (CTO), J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC (SMJ), Van Elle (VANL), Kinovo (KINO), Hercules Site Services (HERC), Costain Group (COST), Severfield (SFR), Galliford Try (GFRD), Dialight (DIA), and HSS Hire Group (HSS). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
TClarke (LON:CTO) and Billington (LON:BILN) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk and profitability.
Billington received 31 more outperform votes than TClarke when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.68% of users gave Billington an outperform vote while only 52.50% of users gave TClarke an outperform vote.
12.0% of TClarke shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.9% of Billington shares are owned by institutional investors. 56.4% of TClarke shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 51.7% of Billington shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Billington has lower revenue, but higher earnings than TClarke. Billington is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TClarke, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Billington has a net margin of 7.79% compared to Billington's net margin of 1.32%. TClarke's return on equity of 25.13% beat Billington's return on equity.
TClarke has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Billington has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, TClarke and TClarke both had 2 articles in the media. TClarke's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Billington's score of 0.15 indicating that Billington is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
TClarke pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Billington pays an annual dividend of GBX 20 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. TClarke pays out 4,285.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Billington pays out 2,531.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
Billington beats TClarke on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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