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Marlowe (MRL) Competitors

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GBX 325 +2.00 (+0.62%)
As of 03/28/2025 12:16 PM Eastern

MRL vs. LSC, SNX, JNEO, FA, CSSG, NWT, MORT, WSG, PEG, and FLX

Should you be buying Marlowe stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Marlowe include London Security (LSC), Synectics (SNX), Journeo (JNEO), FireAngel Safety Technology Group (FA), Croma Security Solutions Group (CSSG), Newmark Security (NWT), Mortice (MORT), Westminster Group (WSG), Petards Group (PEG), and Falanx Group (FLX). These companies are all part of the "security & protection services" industry.

Marlowe vs.

London Security (LON:LSC) and Marlowe (LON:MRL) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, earnings and risk.

55.5% of Marlowe shares are held by institutional investors. 99.0% of London Security shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 25.3% of Marlowe shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Marlowe had 1 more articles in the media than London Security. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Marlowe and 0 mentions for London Security. Marlowe's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat London Security's score of 0.00 indicating that Marlowe is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
London Security Neutral
Marlowe Positive

Marlowe received 92 more outperform votes than London Security when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.51% of users gave Marlowe an outperform vote while only 70.91% of users gave London Security an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
London SecurityOutperform Votes
39
70.91%
Underperform Votes
16
29.09%
MarloweOutperform Votes
131
77.51%
Underperform Votes
38
22.49%

London Security has a net margin of 10.34% compared to Marlowe's net margin of -2.03%. London Security's return on equity of 14.69% beat Marlowe's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
London Security10.34% 14.69% 9.47%
Marlowe -2.03%-2.33%1.41%

London Security has a beta of 0.33, indicating that its share price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marlowe has a beta of 0.44, indicating that its share price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.

London Security has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Marlowe. Marlowe is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than London Security, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
London Security£218.64M2.02£22.60M£189.5819.25
Marlowe£418.37M0.62-£8.48M-£10.75-30.23

Marlowe has a consensus target price of GBX 700, suggesting a potential upside of 115.38%. Given Marlowe's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Marlowe is more favorable than London Security.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
London Security
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Marlowe
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Summary

Marlowe beats London Security on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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MRL vs. The Competition

MetricMarloweSecurity & Protection Services IndustryIndustrials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£260.07M£77.47M£6.87B£2.61B
Dividend Yield0.46%6.78%3.54%4.82%
P/E Ratio-30.2354.8220.76141.21
Price / Sales0.6258.2275.48284,066.48
Price / Cash21.179.5926.8728.12
Price / Book0.712.263.704.63
Net Income-£8.48M£366,942.10£795.56M£5.82B
7 Day Performance-1.22%-2.02%-0.70%1.44%
1 Month Performance-4.41%-3.59%-1.14%7.39%
1 Year Performance-37.50%16.98%17.95%112.67%

Marlowe Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MRL
Marlowe
2.1621 of 5 stars
GBX 325
+0.6%
GBX 700
+115.4%
-37.5%£260.07M£418.37M-30.234,972High Trading Volume
LSC
London Security
N/AGBX 3,250
-3.0%
N/A+24.1%£392.91M£218.64M17.141,596Positive News
Gap Down
SNX
Synectics
N/AGBX 318.75
+2.8%
N/A+79.0%£52.36M£52.08M17.7423,500News Coverage
JNEO
Journeo
N/AGBX 246.26
-0.7%
N/A+0.7%£41.72M£51.30M9.90185Earnings Report
Insider Trade
News Coverage
FA
FireAngel Safety Technology Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£21.92M£53.35M-181.255,500High Trading Volume
CSSG
Croma Security Solutions Group
N/AGBX 86.20
-0.3%
N/A+26.1%£11.84M£9.05M21.0572Positive News
Gap Down
NWT
Newmark Security
N/AGBX 79.85
+12.5%
N/A-6.9%£7.49M£22.28M55.86102Positive News
Gap Up
MORT
Mortice
N/AN/AN/AN/A£6.40M£229.62M2.64N/AGap Up
WSG
Westminster Group
N/AGBX 1.65
-2.9%
N/A+18.3%£5.22M£5.77M-1.74256Earnings Report
News Coverage
Gap Down
PEG
Petards Group
N/AGBX 7.90
+1.9%
N/A+16.5%£4.89M£10.27M-2.7412,500News Coverage
FLX
Falanx Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£2.76M£3.54M-0.8884Gap Down
High Trading Volume
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This page (LON:MRL) was last updated on 3/29/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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