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Zenova Group (ZED) Competitors

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

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 Zotefoams (ZTF). These companies are all part of the "specialty chemicals" industry.

Zenova Group vs. Its Competitors

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

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

In the previous week, Zenova Group had 1 more articles in the media than Esken. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Zenova Group and 0 mentions for Esken. Zenova Group's average media sentiment score of 1.73 beat Esken's score of 0.00 indicating that Zenova Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Zenova Group Very Positive
Esken Neutral

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
Zenova Group-652.91% -67.49% -40.83%
Esken -67.12%-461.07%-2.10%

14.5% of Zenova Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.3% of Esken shares are held by institutional investors. 37.6% of Zenova Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.9% of Esken shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Zenova Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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
Zenova Group£267.34K1.13-£1.75M-£1.19-0.18
Esken£114.53M0.00-£73.10M-£0.08N/A

Summary

Zenova Group and Esken tied by winning 6 of the 12 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£301K£8.26B£3.41B£3.22B
Dividend YieldN/A3.52%5.16%5.04%
P/E Ratio-0.1812.41112.24164.63
Price / Sales1.1358.9031,115,530,772,805,500.00310,107.36
Price / CashN/A19.2524.0327.93
Price / Book0.114.435.935.90
Net Income-£1.75M£220.83M£148.61M£5.89B
7 Day Performance-7.08%-0.17%1.27%48.33%
1 Month Performance-11.39%-0.72%2.95%49.98%
1 Year Performance-83.20%-3.69%32.61%127.65%

Zenova Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ZED
Zenova Group
N/AGBX 0.21
-8.7%
N/A-82.4%£301K£267.34K-0.1811News Coverage
High Trading Volume
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
VRS
Versarien
N/AGBX 0.01
+16.7%
N/A-82.3%£326K£5.32M-0.3570News Coverage
Gap Up
CRDA
Croda International
1.6988 of 5 stars
GBX 2,504
+0.8%
GBX 3,133.33
+25.1%
-36.3%£3.50B£1.63B21.525,852Positive News
Insider Trade
JMAT
Johnson Matthey
1.4508 of 5 stars
GBX 1,842
flat
GBX 1,875
+1.8%
+17.4%£3.08B£11.69B31.30N/APositive News
ELM
Elementis
0.8288 of 5 stars
GBX 164.80
-1.0%
GBX 170
+3.2%
+1.3%£1.22B£919.45M-34.971,281
VCT
Victrex
1.8784 of 5 stars
GBX 696
+0.3%
GBX 822
+18.1%
-32.0%£607.14M£285.02M19.771,109Dividend Increase
SCPA
Scapa Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£402.98M£281.80M-7.321,461
ESNT
Essentra
2.8634 of 5 stars
GBX 99
-1.2%
GBX 191.67
+93.6%
-41.2%£284.56M£309.74M81.56350
ZTF
Zotefoams
N/AGBX 424
+4.4%
N/A-13.0%£203.94M£131.66M20.53549Positive News
High Trading Volume

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