BMK vs. HFG, BD15, ZAM, 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), Tate & Lyle (BD15), Zambeef Products (ZAM), 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 better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.
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.
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 insiders. Comparatively, 5.8% of Benchmark shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Benchmark's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Hilton Food Group's score of 0.00 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, 73.24% of users gave Hilton Food Group an outperform vote while only 72.62% of users gave Benchmark an outperform vote.
Hilton Food Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 1,077.50, indicating a potential upside of 21.82%. Given Hilton Food Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Hilton Food Group is more favorable than Benchmark.
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.
Hilton Food Group has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Benchmark has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Hilton Food Group beats Benchmark on 13 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:BMK) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff