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Northern Bear (NTBR) Competitors

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GBX 102 +6.00 (+6.25%)
As of 08/8/2025 12:17 PM Eastern

NTBR vs. TON, HSM, LIFS, SFE, COD, FAN, TPK, GEN, TYMN, and JHD

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

Northern Bear vs. Its Competitors

Northern Bear (LON:NTBR) and Titon (LON:TON) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and media sentiment.

Northern Bear has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Titon has a beta of 0.21, indicating that its stock price is 79% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Northern Bear has higher revenue and earnings than Titon. Titon is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Northern Bear, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Northern Bear£55.17M0.25£1.30M£9.4910.75
Titon£19.37M0.50-£980.29K-£8.71-9.86

Northern Bear has a net margin of 2.36% compared to Titon's net margin of -5.06%. Northern Bear's return on equity of 7.46% beat Titon's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Northern Bear2.36% 7.46% 3.83%
Titon -5.06%-7.84%-2.67%

28.3% of Titon shares are owned by institutional investors. 47.7% of Northern Bear shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 63.7% of Titon shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Northern Bear's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Titon'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Northern Bear Neutral
Titon Neutral

Northern Bear pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Titon pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Northern Bear pays out 42.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Titon pays out -11.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

Summary

Northern Bear beats Titon on 9 of the 13 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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NTBR vs. The Competition

MetricNorthern BearBuilding Products & Equipment IndustryIndustrials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£14.03M£3.56B£7.59B£3.07B
Dividend Yield7.27%3.03%4.57%5.03%
P/E Ratio10.7557.3525.03170.60
Price / Sales0.2588.0499.12303,757.13
Price / Cash55.4417.0728.0327.96
Price / Book0.861.784.284.52
Net Income£1.30M£18.85B£795.91M£5.90B
7 Day Performance7.20%2.63%0.90%1.23%
1 Month Performance14.35%-2.46%0.72%3.22%
1 Year Performance68.60%1.87%30.72%60.28%

Northern Bear Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NTBR
Northern Bear
N/AGBX 102
+6.3%
N/A+68.6%£14.03M£55.17M10.75411High Trading Volume
TON
Titon
N/AGBX 86
-4.4%
N/A+22.8%£9.67M£19.37M-9.87183Gap Down
HSM
Samuel Heath & Sons
N/AGBX 315
+1.6%
N/A-16.3%£7.97M£15.24M1,050.00141Dividend Cut
LIFS
LifeSafe
N/AGBX 3
-7.7%
N/AN/A£1.44M£7.04M-0.6112Gap Down
SFE
Safestyle UK
N/AN/AN/AN/A£444K£150.18M-4.5718,500
COD
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain
N/AGBX 92.77
-8.5%
N/A+32.5%£45.69B£4.56T16.10159,145News Coverage
FAN
Volution Group
1.4125 of 5 stars
GBX 654
-2.4%
GBX 720
+10.1%
+28.1%£1.29B£346.77M30.111,909Analyst Forecast
TPK
Travis Perkins
0.5001 of 5 stars
GBX 523
-3.9%
GBX 780
+49.1%
-31.4%£1.11B£4.77B-63.3219,172News Coverage
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
GEN
Genuit Group
1.4468 of 5 stars
GBX 384
-1.5%
GBX 520
+35.4%
-18.1%£952.44M£553.28M40.292,700
TYMN
Tyman
N/AN/AN/AN/A£775.94M£657.60M2,094.743,476
JHD
James Halstead
N/AGBX 148.50
+1.0%
N/A-20.5%£621.16M£275.88M14.96860

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This page (LON:NTBR) was last updated on 8/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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