BILN vs. SFR, CTO, SMJ, KINO, VANL, HERC, GYG, NEXS, RAI, and TGP
Should you be buying Billington stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Billington include Severfield (SFR), TClarke (CTO), J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC (SMJ), Kinovo (KINO), Van Elle (VANL), Hercules Site Services (HERC), GYG (GYG), Nexus Infrastructure (NEXS), RA International Group (RAI), and Tekmar Group (TGP). These companies are all part of the "engineering & construction" industry.
Billington vs.
Severfield (LON:SFR) and Billington (LON:BILN) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, earnings, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Billington has a net margin of 7.88% compared to Severfield's net margin of 3.43%. Billington's return on equity of 23.29% beat Severfield's return on equity.
In the previous week, Billington had 2 more articles in the media than Severfield. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Billington and 1 mentions for Severfield. Severfield's average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat Billington's score of 0.28 indicating that Severfield is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Severfield has higher revenue and earnings than Billington. Billington is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Severfield, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Severfield pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%. Billington pays an annual dividend of GBX 20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Severfield pays out 8,000.0% 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 2,564.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Severfield received 111 more outperform votes than Billington when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.09% of users gave Severfield an outperform vote while only 74.68% of users gave Billington an outperform vote.
Severfield has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Billington has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
66.9% of Severfield shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.1% of Billington shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.4% of Severfield shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 34.8% of Billington shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Severfield beats Billington on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:BILN) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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