NTBR vs. HSM, TON, LIFS, LPA, WSG, NWT, XSG, NEXS, NBB, and AUK
Should you be buying Northern Bear stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Northern Bear include Samuel Heath & Sons (HSM), Titon (TON), LifeSafe (LIFS), LPA Group (LPA), Westminster Group (WSG), Newmark Security (NWT), Xeros Technology Group (XSG), Nexus Infrastructure (NEXS), Norman Broadbent (NBB), and Aukett Swanke Group (AUK). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Samuel Heath & Sons (LON:HSM) 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 institutional ownership, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and profitability.
Samuel Heath & Sons has a net margin of 5.72% compared to Samuel Heath & Sons' net margin of 2.37%. Samuel Heath & Sons' return on equity of 7.60% beat Northern Bear's return on equity.
Samuel Heath & Sons pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share. Northern Bear pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Samuel Heath & Sons pays out 3,529.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Northern Bear pays out 4,444.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Northern Bear has higher revenue and earnings than Samuel Heath & Sons. Samuel Heath & Sons is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Northern Bear, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
0.3% of Northern Bear shares are held by institutional investors. 91.9% of Samuel Heath & Sons shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 64.1% of Northern Bear shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Samuel Heath & Sons received 26 more outperform votes than Northern Bear when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.91% of users gave Samuel Heath & Sons an outperform vote while only 64.89% of users gave Northern Bear an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Northern Bear had 4 more articles in the media than Samuel Heath & Sons. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Northern Bear and 0 mentions for Samuel Heath & Sons. Samuel Heath & Sons' average media sentiment score of 0.10 beat Northern Bear's score of 0.00 indicating that Northern Bear is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Northern Bear beats Samuel Heath & Sons on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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