SLP vs. THS, GEM, PDL, EEE, EUA, ZTF, CMCL, SHG, CAPD, and SVML
Should you be buying Sylvania Platinum stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sylvania Platinum include Tharisa (THS), Gemfields Group (GEM), Petra Diamonds (PDL), Empire Metals (EEE), Eurasia Mining (EUA), Zotefoams (ZTF), Caledonia Mining (CMCL), Shanta Gold (SHG), Capital (CAPD), and Sovereign Metals (SVML). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Tharisa (LON:THS) and Sylvania Platinum (LON:SLP) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
Sylvania Platinum has a net margin of 15.87% compared to Sylvania Platinum's net margin of 12.65%. Sylvania Platinum's return on equity of 13.40% beat Tharisa's return on equity.
4.7% of Tharisa shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.6% of Sylvania Platinum shares are owned by institutional investors. 65.7% of Tharisa shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 12.2% of Sylvania Platinum shares are owned 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.
Tharisa presently has a consensus price target of GBX 130, suggesting a potential upside of 89.78%. Given Sylvania Platinum's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Tharisa is more favorable than Sylvania Platinum.
Tharisa pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. Sylvania Platinum pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%. Tharisa pays out 1,818.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Sylvania Platinum pays out 12,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Tharisa received 2 more outperform votes than Sylvania Platinum when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 82.52% of users gave Tharisa an outperform vote while only 79.59% of users gave Sylvania Platinum an outperform vote.
Tharisa has higher revenue and earnings than Sylvania Platinum. Tharisa is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sylvania Platinum, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Sylvania Platinum had 3 more articles in the media than Tharisa. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Sylvania Platinum and 0 mentions for Tharisa. Tharisa's average media sentiment score of 0.33 beat Sylvania Platinum's score of 0.00 indicating that Sylvania Platinum is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Tharisa has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sylvania Platinum has a beta of 0.35, indicating that its share price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Tharisa beats Sylvania Platinum on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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