LifeSafe (LIFS) Competitors

LifeSafe (LON:LIFS) and Samuel Heath & Sons (LON:HSM) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings and analyst recommendations.

Which has higher earnings and valuation, LIFS or HSM?

Samuel Heath & Sons has higher revenue and earnings than LifeSafe. LifeSafe is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Samuel Heath & Sons, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
LifeSafe	£5.64M	0.82	-£1.93M	-£0.09	-183.33
Samuel Heath & Sons	£14.94M	0.00	£1.31M	£0.34	N/A

Do insiders & institutionals believe in LIFS or HSM?

25.8% of LifeSafe shares are owned by institutional investors. 58.0% of LifeSafe shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 91.9% of Samuel Heath & Sons shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts rate LIFS or HSM?

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
LifeSafe	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A
Samuel Heath & Sons	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A

Does the media refer more to LIFS or HSM?

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

Company	Overall Sentiment
LifeSafe	Neutral
Samuel Heath & Sons	Neutral

Is LIFS or HSM more profitable?

Samuel Heath & Sons has a net margin of 5.72% compared to LifeSafe's net margin of -34.23%. Samuel Heath & Sons' return on equity of 7.57% beat LifeSafe's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
LifeSafe	-34.23%	N/A	N/A
Samuel Heath & Sons	5.72%	7.57%	3.61%

Does the MarketBeat Community favor LIFS or HSM?

Samuel Heath & Sons received 87 more outperform votes than LifeSafe when rated by MarketBeat users.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
LifeSafe	N/A	N/A
Samuel Heath & Sons	Outperform Votes 87 65.91%	Underperform Votes 45 34.09%

Summary

Samuel Heath & Sons beats LifeSafe on 9 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.