PAF vs. RSG, GGP, AMRQ, CMCL, SHG, HOC, CEY, SYNT, ESNT, and CAML
Should you be buying Pan African Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pan African Resources include Resolute Mining (RSG), Greatland Gold (GGP), Amaroq Minerals (AMRQ), Caledonia Mining (CMCL), Shanta Gold (SHG), Hochschild Mining (HOC), Centamin (CEY), Synthomer (SYNT), Essentra (ESNT), and Central Asia Metals (CAML). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Pan African Resources (LON:PAF) and Resolute Mining (LON:RSG) 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 profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, dividends, earnings and valuation.
Pan African Resources presently has a consensus target price of GBX 25, suggesting a potential upside of 1.12%. Resolute Mining has a consensus target price of GBX 27, suggesting a potential upside of 15.29%. Given Resolute Mining's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Resolute Mining is more favorable than Pan African Resources.
Pan African Resources has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Resolute Mining. Pan African Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Resolute Mining, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Pan African Resources had 2 more articles in the media than Resolute Mining. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Pan African Resources and 0 mentions for Resolute Mining. Resolute Mining's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Pan African Resources' score of 0.41 indicating that Resolute Mining is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Pan African Resources has a net margin of 20.79% compared to Resolute Mining's net margin of 10.39%. Pan African Resources' return on equity of 23.96% beat Resolute Mining's return on equity.
Pan African Resources received 352 more outperform votes than Resolute Mining when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 89.09% of users gave Resolute Mining an outperform vote while only 76.24% of users gave Pan African Resources an outperform vote.
Pan African Resources has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Resolute Mining has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
70.1% of Pan African Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.3% of Resolute Mining shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.6% of Pan African Resources shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of Resolute Mining shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Pan African Resources beats Resolute Mining on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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