BILN vs. CTO, SFR, SMJ, HERC, VANL, KINO, GYG, NEXS, TGP, and AUK
Should you be buying Billington stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Billington include TClarke (CTO), Severfield (SFR), J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC (SMJ), Hercules Site Services (HERC), Van Elle (VANL), Kinovo (KINO), GYG (GYG), Nexus Infrastructure (NEXS), Tekmar Group (TGP), and Aukett Swanke Group (AUK). These companies are all part of the "engineering & construction" industry.
Billington vs.
TClarke (LON:CTO) and Billington (LON:BILN) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, risk and analyst recommendations.
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.
TClarke has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Billington has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Billington had 2 more articles in the media than TClarke. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Billington and 0 mentions for TClarke. Billington's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat TClarke's score of 0.00 indicating that Billington is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
TClarke pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share. Billington pays an annual dividend of GBX 20 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.7%. 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 24.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Billington is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
15.2% of TClarke shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.1% of Billington shares are owned by institutional investors. 56.4% of TClarke shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 34.8% of Billington shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Billington has a net margin of 7.88% compared to TClarke's net margin of 1.32%. Billington's return on equity of 20.60% beat TClarke's return on equity.
Billington has lower revenue, but higher earnings than TClarke. TClarke is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Billington, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Billington beats TClarke on 13 of the 16 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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This page (LON:BILN) was last updated on 4/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
