ZED vs. ESKN, VRS, 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 Esken (ESKN), Versarien (VRS), 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.
Esken (LON:ESKN) and Zenova Group (LON:ZED) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability, media sentiment and community ranking.
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.
Esken received 7 more outperform votes than Zenova Group when rated by MarketBeat users.
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 0.49 beat Esken's score of 0.00 indicating that Zenova Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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, 37.6% of Zenova Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Esken has a beta of 0.53, meaning that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Zenova Group has a beta of -0.39, meaning that its share price is 139% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
Summary
Esken beats Zenova Group on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:ZED) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
