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Zenova Group (ZED) Competitors

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ZED vs. VRS, ESKN, AGM, 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 Versarien (VRS), Esken (ESKN), Applied Graphene Materials (AGM), 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. Its Competitors

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

In the previous week, Versarien had 8 more articles in the media than Zenova Group. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Versarien and 0 mentions for Zenova Group. Versarien's average media sentiment score of 0.02 beat Zenova Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Versarien is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Zenova Group Neutral
Versarien Neutral

14.5% of Zenova Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.1% of Versarien shares are owned by institutional investors. 37.6% of Zenova Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 11.7% of Versarien shares are owned by 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.

Zenova Group has a beta of -0.39, suggesting that its share price is 139% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Versarien has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Zenova Group£267.34K1.31-£1.75M-£1.19-0.21
Versarien£5.32M0.07-£11.98M-£0.04-0.40

Versarien has a net margin of -225.06% compared to Zenova Group's net margin of -652.91%. Zenova Group's return on equity of -67.49% beat Versarien's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Zenova Group-652.91% -67.49% -40.83%
Versarien -225.06%-216.70%-26.66%

Summary

Versarien beats Zenova Group on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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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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ZED vs. The Competition

MetricZenova GroupSpecialty Chemicals IndustryMaterials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£351K£8.15B£3.29B£2.96B
Dividend YieldN/A3.52%5.14%5.02%
P/E Ratio-0.2113.3296.46151.31
Price / Sales1.3159.1427,226,089,426,143,700.00242,297.52
Price / CashN/A19.2523.9227.97
Price / Book0.134.595.974.55
Net Income-£1.75M£220.83M£147.60M£5.90B
7 Day Performance6.06%0.03%1.85%1.41%
1 Month Performance13.43%5.40%4.66%4.62%
1 Year Performance-84.19%-8.28%25.81%79.67%

Zenova Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ZED
Zenova Group
N/AGBX 0.25
+6.5%
N/A-85.7%£351K£267.34K-0.2111Gap Up
VRS
Versarien
N/AGBX 0.03
-11.1%
N/A-81.3%£746K£5.32M-0.8070Gap Up
ESKN
Esken
N/AN/AN/AN/A£714K£114.53M-0.88678Gap Down
AGM
Applied Graphene Materials
N/AN/AN/AN/A£643K£127K-20.00160Gap Down
CRDA
Croda International
2.5351 of 5 stars
GBX 3,018
+1.4%
GBX 3,766.67
+24.8%
-27.0%£4.22B£1.63B25.935,852
JMAT
Johnson Matthey
0.9434 of 5 stars
GBX 1,762
+0.7%
GBX 1,650
-6.4%
+9.8%£2.95B£11.69B29.94N/A
ELM
Elementis
0.873 of 5 stars
GBX 164.57
+1.8%
GBX 170
+3.3%
+12.2%£1.21B£919.45M-34.921,281
VCT
Victrex
3.1692 of 5 stars
GBX 794
flat
GBX 1,170
+47.4%
N/A£692.62M£285.02M22.561,109News Coverage
Dividend Increase
Gap Down
SCPA
Scapa Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£402.98M£281.80M-7.321,461
ESNT
Essentra
2.2665 of 5 stars
GBX 107.80
+2.5%
GBX 206.67
+91.7%
-32.4%£309.86M£309.74M88.80350Positive News
SYNT
Synthomer
3.2727 of 5 stars
GBX 111.20
+3.5%
GBX 225
+102.3%
-67.5%£182.34M£1.87B-2.234,200

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This page (LON:ZED) was last updated on 7/8/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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