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Zenova Group (ZED) Competitors

GBX 0.22 +0.00 (+0.93%)
As of 04/17/2025 08:31 AM Eastern

ZED vs. ESKN, AGM, VRS, CRDA, JMAT, ELM, VCT, SCPA, ESNT, and SYNT

Should you be buying Zenova Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Zenova Group include Esken (ESKN), Applied Graphene Materials (AGM), Versarien (VRS), Croda International (CRDA), Johnson Matthey (JMAT), Elementis (ELM), Victrex (VCT), Scapa Group (SCPA), Essentra (ESNT), and Synthomer (SYNT). These companies are all part of the "specialty chemicals" industry.

Zenova Group vs.

Esken (LON:ESKN) and Zenova Group (LON:ZED) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, community ranking, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation and media sentiment.

64.3% of Esken shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.5% of Zenova Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.9% of Esken shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 37.6% of Zenova Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Esken received 7 more outperform votes than Zenova Group when rated by MarketBeat users.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
EskenOutperform Votes
7
77.78%
Underperform Votes
2
22.22%
Zenova GroupN/AN/A

In the previous week, Esken's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Zenova Group'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Esken Neutral
Zenova Group Neutral

Zenova Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Esken. Zenova Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Esken, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Esken£114.53M0.00-£73.10M-£0.08N/A
Zenova Group£267.34K1.16-£1.75M-£1.19-0.18

Esken has a net margin of -67.12% compared to Zenova Group's net margin of -652.91%. Zenova Group's return on equity of -67.49% beat Esken's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Esken-67.12% -461.07% -2.10%
Zenova Group -652.91%-67.49%-40.83%

Esken has a beta of 0.53, indicating that its stock price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Zenova Group has a beta of -0.39, indicating that its stock price is 139% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Esken beats Zenova Group on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

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ZED vs. The Competition

MetricZenova GroupSpecialty Chemicals IndustryMaterials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£311,000.00£8.15B£2.98B£2.52B
Dividend YieldN/A3.58%5.22%4.80%
P/E Ratio-0.1812.1975.92130.99
Price / Sales1.1647.3223,145,364,078,952,100.00234,951.35
Price / CashN/A19.2524.4128.35
Price / Book0.115.095.244.43
Net Income-£1.75M£220.83M£155.69M£5.88B
7 Day Performance8.50%1.65%2.73%2.87%
1 Month Performance-1.36%10.57%1.94%-0.96%
1 Year Performance-86.85%-18.91%16.40%22.28%

Zenova Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ZED
Zenova Group
N/AGBX 0.22
+0.9%
N/A-87.7%£311,000.00£267,344.65-0.1811
ESKN
Esken
N/AN/AN/AN/A£714,000.00£114.53M-0.88678Gap Down
AGM
Applied Graphene Materials
N/AN/AN/AN/A£643,000.00£127,000.00-20.00160Gap Down
VRS
Versarien
N/AGBX 0.03
-7.1%
N/A-68.3%£606,000.00£5.32M-0.6570Gap Down
CRDA
Croda International
2.714 of 5 stars
GBX 2,620
-0.8%
GBX 4,750
+81.3%
-44.4%£3.66B£1.63B22.515,852
JMAT
Johnson Matthey
3.7457 of 5 stars
GBX 1,191
+3.0%
GBX 1,900
+59.5%
-32.8%£1.99B£11.69B20.24N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
Gap Up
ELM
Elementis
N/AGBX 122.60
+5.9%
GBX 170
+38.7%
-12.4%£905.09M£919.45M-26.011,281Negative News
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
VCT
Victrex
2.136 of 5 stars
GBX 774
+5.0%
GBX 1,170
+51.2%
-36.3%£675.18M£285.02M21.991,109Dividend Increase
SCPA
Scapa Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£402.98M£281.80M-7.321,461
ESNT
Essentra
2.5424 of 5 stars
GBX 94.60
+4.2%
GBX 206.67
+118.5%
-47.1%£271.92M£309.74M77.93350
SYNT
Synthomer
2.3519 of 5 stars
GBX 88.66
+11.7%
GBX 225
+153.8%
-66.0%£145.38M£1.87B-1.784,200High Trading Volume

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This page (LON:ZED) was last updated on 4/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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