BMK vs. HFG, ZAM, BD15, PURE, FIF, CARR, ANP, SIS, OHT, and UKR
Should you be buying Benchmark stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Benchmark include Hilton Food Group (HFG), Zambeef Products (ZAM), Tate & Lyle (BD15), PureCircle (PURE), Finsbury Food Group (FIF), Carr's Group (CARR), Anpario (ANP), Science in Sport (SIS), Ocean Harvest Technology Group (OHT), and Ukrproduct Group (UKR). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods" industry.
Benchmark vs.
Hilton Food Group (LON:HFG) and Benchmark (LON:BMK) are both small-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends and risk.
Hilton Food Group has a net margin of 1.22% compared to Benchmark's net margin of -43.67%. Hilton Food Group's return on equity of 15.15% beat Benchmark's return on equity.
Hilton Food Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 1,077.50, indicating a potential upside of 28.27%. Given Hilton Food Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Hilton Food Group is more favorable than Benchmark.
Hilton Food Group has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Benchmark has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Benchmark had 1 more articles in the media than Hilton Food Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Benchmark and 0 mentions for Hilton Food Group. Benchmark's average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat Hilton Food Group's score of -1.10 indicating that Benchmark is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Hilton Food Group received 202 more outperform votes than Benchmark when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.12% of users gave Hilton Food Group an outperform vote while only 72.62% of users gave Benchmark an outperform vote.
62.3% of Hilton Food Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.2% of Benchmark shares are held by institutional investors. 14.3% of Hilton Food Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.8% of Benchmark shares are held by company 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.
Hilton Food Group has higher revenue and earnings than Benchmark. Benchmark is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hilton Food Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Hilton Food Group beats Benchmark on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (LON:BMK) was last updated on 3/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
