PACK vs. ARMN, EXK, MUX, GATO, LEU, MTAL, DRD, ASIX, MERC, and NFGC
Should you be buying Ranpak stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ranpak include Aris Mining (ARMN), Endeavour Silver (EXK), McEwen Mining (MUX), Gatos Silver (GATO), Centrus Energy (LEU), Metals Acquisition (MTAL), DRDGOLD (DRD), AdvanSix (ASIX), Mercer International (MERC), and New Found Gold (NFGC). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Ranpak (NYSE:PACK) and Aris Mining (NYSE:ARMN) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking and earnings.
Ranpak currently has a consensus price target of $9.00, indicating a potential upside of 34.73%. Given Ranpak's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Ranpak is more favorable than Aris Mining.
In the previous week, Ranpak and Ranpak both had 3 articles in the media. Ranpak's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Aris Mining's score of 0.00 indicating that Ranpak is being referred to more favorably in the media.
85.9% of Ranpak shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.8% of Aris Mining shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.4% of Ranpak shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Ranpak received 7 more outperform votes than Aris Mining when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 36.84% of users gave Ranpak an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Aris Mining an outperform vote.
Aris Mining has higher revenue and earnings than Ranpak. Ranpak is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aris Mining, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Aris Mining has a net margin of 2.09% compared to Ranpak's net margin of -6.70%. Aris Mining's return on equity of 8.73% beat Ranpak's return on equity.
Summary
Ranpak beats Aris Mining on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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