VANL vs. CTO, SFR, BILN, SMJ, HERC, KINO, GYG, NEXS, TGP, and AUK
Should you be buying Van Elle stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Van Elle include TClarke (CTO), Severfield (SFR), Billington (BILN), J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC (SMJ), Hercules Site Services (HERC), Kinovo (KINO), GYG (GYG), Nexus Infrastructure (NEXS), Tekmar Group (TGP), and Aukett Swanke Group (AUK). These companies are all part of the "engineering & construction" industry.
Van Elle vs.
Van Elle (LON:VANL) and TClarke (LON:CTO) 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, valuation, community ranking, risk, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Van Elle pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. TClarke pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share. Van Elle pays out 25.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. TClarke pays out 4,285.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Van Elle is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Van Elle received 120 more outperform votes than TClarke when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.28% of users gave Van Elle an outperform vote while only 52.50% of users gave TClarke an outperform vote.
Van Elle has a net margin of 3.02% compared to TClarke's net margin of 1.32%. TClarke's return on equity of 14.11% beat Van Elle's return on equity.
In the previous week, Van Elle's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled TClarke'saverage media sentiment score.
TClarke has higher revenue and earnings than Van Elle. TClarke is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Van Elle, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
58.3% of Van Elle shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.2% of TClarke shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.2% of Van Elle shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 56.4% of TClarke shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Van Elle has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TClarke has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Van Elle beats TClarke on 9 of the 14 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:VANL) was last updated on 4/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff