TON vs. HSM, NTBR, LIFS, SFE, COD, TPK, FAN, GEN, TYMN, and JHD
Should you be buying Titon stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Titon include Samuel Heath & Sons (HSM), Northern Bear (NTBR), LifeSafe (LIFS), Safestyle UK (SFE), Compagnie de Saint-Gobain (COD), Travis Perkins (TPK), Volution Group (FAN), Genuit Group (GEN), Tyman (TYMN), and James Halstead (JHD). These companies are all part of the "building products & equipment" industry.
Titon vs.
Titon (LON:TON) and Samuel Heath & Sons (LON:HSM) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, earnings, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Samuel Heath & Sons has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Titon. Titon 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.
Titon received 28 more outperform votes than Samuel Heath & Sons when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.91% of users gave Samuel Heath & Sons an outperform vote while only 60.53% of users gave Titon an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Samuel Heath & Sons had 1 more articles in the media than Titon. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Samuel Heath & Sons and 0 mentions for Titon. Titon's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Samuel Heath & Sons' score of -2.00 indicating that Titon is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Samuel Heath & Sons has a net margin of 5.04% compared to Titon's net margin of -5.06%. Samuel Heath & Sons' return on equity of 6.57% beat Titon's return on equity.
28.3% of Titon shares are held by institutional investors. 63.7% of Titon shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 93.5% of Samuel Heath & Sons shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Titon pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Samuel Heath & Sons pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Titon pays out -11.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Samuel Heath & Sons pays out 4,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Titon has a beta of 0.21, suggesting that its stock price is 79% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Samuel Heath & Sons has a beta of 0.04, suggesting that its stock price is 96% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Samuel Heath & Sons beats Titon on 11 of the 17 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:TON) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
