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BMK vs. ZAM, BD15, PURE, CARR, FIF, SIS, ANP, UKR, OHT, and WALG

Should you be buying Benchmark stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Benchmark include Zambeef Products (ZAM), Tate & Lyle (BD15), PureCircle (PURE), Carr's Group (CARR), Finsbury Food Group (FIF), Science in Sport (SIS), Anpario (ANP), Ukrproduct Group (UKR), Ocean Harvest Technology Group (OHT), and Walcom Group Limited (WALG.L) (WALG). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods" industry.

Benchmark vs.

Zambeef Products (LON:ZAM) and Benchmark (LON:BMK) are both small-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.

Zambeef Products has a net margin of 2.19% compared to Benchmark's net margin of -43.67%. Zambeef Products' return on equity of 2.31% beat Benchmark's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Zambeef Products2.19% 2.31% 1.75%
Benchmark -43.67%-16.05%-1.07%

In the previous week, Zambeef Products and Zambeef Products both had 1 articles in the media. Zambeef Products' average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Benchmark's score of 0.54 indicating that Zambeef Products is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Zambeef Products
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Benchmark
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Zambeef Products has higher revenue and earnings than Benchmark. Benchmark is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Zambeef Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Zambeef Products£179.19B0.00£3.93B£1.044.15
Benchmark£90.57M1.83-£39.55M-£5.34-4.20

10.2% of Zambeef Products shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.2% of Benchmark shares are held by institutional investors. 5.8% of Benchmark shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Benchmark received 100 more outperform votes than Zambeef Products when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.62% of users gave Benchmark an outperform vote while only 61.26% of users gave Zambeef Products an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Zambeef ProductsOutperform Votes
136
61.26%
Underperform Votes
86
38.74%
BenchmarkOutperform Votes
236
72.62%
Underperform Votes
89
27.38%

Zambeef Products has a beta of -0.48, indicating that its share price is 148% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Benchmark has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Zambeef Products beats Benchmark on 8 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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BMK vs. The Competition

MetricBenchmarkPackaged Foods IndustryDefensive SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£166.05M£2.17B£6.94B£2.65B
Dividend YieldN/A2.63%3.16%5.05%
P/E Ratio-4.2012.1911.98134.23
Price / Sales1.8341.7780.06226,037.97
Price / Cash7.41123.14147.7728.02
Price / Book0.743.152.973.78
Net Income-£39.55M£2.63B£1.01B£5.88B
7 Day Performance-0.88%1.11%1.56%0.36%
1 Month Performance26.60%53.93%19.14%21.79%
1 Year Performance-52.34%62.56%63.55%120.75%

Benchmark Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BMK
Benchmark
N/AGBX 22.40
+0.4%
N/A-52.2%£166.05M£90.57M-4.20823
ZAM
Zambeef Products
N/AGBX 4.30
+4.9%
N/A-25.9%£459.06M£179.19B4.157,000Gap Up
BD15
Tate & Lyle
N/AN/AN/AN/A£455.63M£1.38B1.694,441Gap Down
PURE
PureCircle
N/AN/AN/AN/A£183.53M£121.14M-2.7810
CARR
Carr's Group
N/AGBX 152.50
flat
N/A+11.2%£148.48M£149.76M-109.4352,000Dividend Increase
Analyst Forecast
FIF
Finsbury Food Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£143.42M£413.74M1,375.00206
SIS
Science in Sport
N/AGBX 33
-1.5%
N/A+75.4%£78.15M£70.87M-5.83330
ANP
Anpario
1.2231 of 5 stars
GBX 453.66
+0.4%
GBX 435
-4.1%
+80.8%£77.40M£33.50M25.05109Positive News
UKR
Ukrproduct Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.68M£35.36M211.25836Gap Down
OHT
Ocean Harvest Technology Group
N/AGBX 1.20
+20.0%
N/A-92.1%£1.51M£2.57M-60.0035Gap Up
WALG
Walcom Group Limited (WALG.L)
N/AN/AN/AN/A£138,000.00N/A0.00N/A

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This page (LON:BMK) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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