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LifeSafe (LIFS) Competitors

GBX 3 -0.25 (-7.69%)
As of 08/1/2025 11:39 AM Eastern

LIFS vs. HSM, SFE, COD, FAN, TPK, GEN, TYMN, JHD, NXR, and SRAD

Should you be buying LifeSafe stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LifeSafe include Samuel Heath & Sons (HSM), Safestyle UK (SFE), Compagnie de Saint-Gobain (COD), Volution Group (FAN), Travis Perkins (TPK), Genuit Group (GEN), Tyman (TYMN), James Halstead (JHD), Norcros (NXR), and Stelrad Group (SRAD). These companies are all part of the "building products & equipment" industry.

LifeSafe vs. Its Competitors

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

Samuel Heath & Sons has a net margin of 5.04% compared to LifeSafe's net margin of -33.55%. Samuel Heath & Sons' return on equity of 6.57% beat LifeSafe's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
LifeSafe-33.55% -75.48% -33.83%
Samuel Heath & Sons 5.04%6.57%3.54%

40.4% of LifeSafe shares are held by institutional investors. 35.7% of LifeSafe shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 93.5% of Samuel Heath & Sons shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

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

LifeSafe has a beta of 0.27, suggesting that its share price is 73% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Samuel Heath & Sons has a beta of 0.04, suggesting that its share price is 96% less volatile than the S&P 500.

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
LifeSafe£7.04M0.20-£2.36M-£4.94-0.61
Samuel Heath & Sons£15.24M0.52£1.31M£0.301,050.00

Summary

Samuel Heath & Sons beats LifeSafe on 9 of the 11 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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LIFS vs. The Competition

MetricLifeSafeBuilding Products & Equipment IndustryIndustrials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£1.44M£3.38B£7.60B£3.03B
Dividend YieldN/A3.03%4.56%5.02%
P/E Ratio-0.6153.2725.25176.75
Price / Sales0.2086.6798.63264,362.45
Price / CashN/A17.0727.7627.97
Price / Book0.351.764.314.53
Net Income-£2.36M£18.85B£792.92M£5.90B
7 Day Performance-29.41%-3.32%-1.95%12.58%
1 Month Performance-55.88%-1.98%2.25%6.10%
1 Year Performance-70.00%-0.11%29.27%71.60%

LifeSafe Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LIFS
LifeSafe
N/AGBX 3
-7.7%
N/A-70.0%£1.44M£7.04M-0.6112Gap Down
HSM
Samuel Heath & Sons
N/AGBX 315
+1.6%
N/AN/A£7.97M£15.24M1,050.00141Positive News
Earnings Report
Dividend Cut
SFE
Safestyle UK
N/AN/AN/AN/A£444K£150.18M-4.5718,500
COD
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain
N/AGBX 102.02
+3.4%
N/A+21.2%£50.25B£4.56T17.71159,145
FAN
Volution Group
1.0059 of 5 stars
GBX 656
-0.2%
GBX 720
+9.8%
+22.5%£1.29B£346.77M30.201,909
TPK
Travis Perkins
1.6214 of 5 stars
GBX 564.50
-2.3%
GBX 823.33
+45.9%
-44.1%£1.20B£4.77B-68.3419,172Gap Down
GEN
Genuit Group
2.2652 of 5 stars
GBX 402.19
-0.8%
GBX 520
+29.3%
-24.3%£997.55M£553.28M42.202,700News Coverage
TYMN
Tyman
N/AN/AN/AN/A£775.94M£657.60M2,094.743,476
JHD
James Halstead
N/AGBX 159.50
+2.2%
N/A-22.3%£667.18M£275.88M16.07860
NXR
Norcros
3.79 of 5 stars
GBX 295
+0.7%
GBX 362.50
+22.9%
+20.9%£263.81M£392.22M9.802,400Gap Down
SRAD
Stelrad Group
N/AGBX 172
-0.3%
N/A+29.6%£228.50M£306.97M14.782,960

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This page (LON:LIFS) was last updated on 8/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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