AMM vs. ESM, BSX, GRC, and YRB
Should you be buying Almaden Minerals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Almaden Minerals include Euro Sun Mining (ESM), Belo Sun Mining (BSX), Gold Springs Resource (GRC), and Yorbeau Resources (YRB). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Almaden Minerals (TSE:AMM) and Euro Sun Mining (TSE:ESM) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, risk, profitability and institutional ownership.
3.5% of Almaden Minerals shares are held by institutional investors. 3.8% of Almaden Minerals shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of Euro Sun Mining shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Euro Sun Mining received 45 more outperform votes than Almaden Minerals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.00% of users gave Euro Sun Mining an outperform vote while only 68.79% of users gave Almaden Minerals an outperform vote.
Almaden Minerals has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Euro Sun Mining has a beta of 1.96, suggesting that its share price is 96% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Euro Sun Mining's return on equity of 0.00% beat Almaden Minerals' return on equity.
In the previous week, Euro Sun Mining had 1 more articles in the media than Almaden Minerals. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Euro Sun Mining and 0 mentions for Almaden Minerals. Euro Sun Mining's average media sentiment score of 1.84 beat Almaden Minerals' score of 0.00 indicating that Euro Sun Mining is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Euro Sun Mining is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Almaden Minerals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Euro Sun Mining beats Almaden Minerals on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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