ECR vs. PALM, CGNR, WSBN, KAT, XTR, CORA, ORR, PAT, GDP, and JAY
Should you be buying ECR Minerals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ECR Minerals include Panther Metals (PALM), Conroy Gold and Natural Resources (CGNR), Wishbone Gold (WSBN), Katoro Gold (KAT), Xtract Resources (XTR), Cora Gold (CORA), Oriole Resources (ORR), Panthera Resources (PAT), Goldplat (GDP), and Bluejay Mining (JAY). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Panther Metals (LON:PALM) and ECR Minerals (LON:ECR) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation and community ranking.
5.9% of Panther Metals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.7% of ECR Minerals shares are owned by institutional investors. 41.0% of Panther Metals shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.4% of ECR Minerals shares are owned 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.
Panther Metals has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ECR Minerals has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Panther Metals received 11 more outperform votes than ECR Minerals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.09% of users gave ECR Minerals an outperform vote while only 65.15% of users gave Panther Metals an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Panther Metals had 1 more articles in the media than ECR Minerals. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Panther Metals and 2 mentions for ECR Minerals. ECR Minerals' average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Panther Metals' score of -0.59 indicating that Panther Metals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
ECR Minerals' return on equity of 7.95% beat Panther Metals' return on equity.
Panther Metals has higher earnings, but lower revenue than ECR Minerals.
Summary
Panther Metals beats ECR Minerals on 8 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
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