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Zenova Group (ZED) Competitors

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As of 10/2/2025

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

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

Zenova Group vs. Its Competitors

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 companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, earnings and valuation.

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£100K7.62-£1.75M-£0.01-27.33

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.

64.3% of Esken shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.5% of Zenova Group shares are held by institutional investors. 7.9% of Esken shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.4% of Zenova Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

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%

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

Summary

Esken beats Zenova Group on 6 of the 10 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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ZED vs. The Competition

MetricZenova GroupSpecialty Chemicals IndustryMaterials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£762K£7.44B£3.77B£2.60B
Dividend YieldN/A3.47%5.05%5.29%
P/E Ratio-27.33641.91158.534,449.24
Price / Sales7.6297.7223,172.5599,975.35
Price / CashN/A19.2524.3627.90
Price / Book0.112.897.078.35
Net Income-£1.75M£220.83M£149.02M£5.89B
7 Day PerformanceN/A2.01%3.02%0.99%
1 Month Performance-3.76%1.53%12.62%6.24%
1 Year Performance-76.62%-4.53%55.78%158.61%

Zenova Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ZED
Zenova Group
N/AGBX 0.21
flat
N/AN/A£762K£100K-27.3311
ESKN
Esken
N/AN/AN/AN/A£714K£114.53M-0.88678Gap Down
VRS
Versarien
N/AGBX 0.01
+10.0%
N/A-80.0%£661K£2.42M-3.3370Gap Down
AGM
Applied Graphene Materials
N/AN/AN/AN/A£643K£127K-20.00160Gap Down
BIOM
Biome Technologies
N/AGBX 9.67
+1.8%
N/A+58.3%£386K£5.75M-28.4427Gap Up
CRDA
Croda International
2.4168 of 5 stars
GBX 2,650
-0.5%
GBX 3,150
+18.9%
-33.2%£3.70B£1.67B1,720.785,852News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
JMAT
Johnson Matthey
1.1809 of 5 stars
GBX 1,979
+1.4%
GBX 1,875
-5.3%
+31.9%£3.32B£11.67B937.03N/ANews Coverage
Gap Down
ELM
Elementis
1.0967 of 5 stars
GBX 159.80
-0.1%
GBX 170
+6.4%
N/A£924.10M£732.10M-1,248.441,281
VCT
Victrex
2.7749 of 5 stars
GBX 687
-1.2%
GBX 822
+19.7%
-24.5%£598.05M£297.30M2,026.551,109News Coverage
Dividend Increase
SCPA
Scapa Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£402.98M£281.80M-7.321,461
ESNT
Essentra
N/AGBX 103.60
+1.0%
GBX 191.67
+85.0%
-26.0%£295.39M£295.10M3,139.39350

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This page (LON:ZED) was last updated on 10/6/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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