BSX vs. AMM, YRB, ESM, GRC, and SGLD
Should you be buying Belo Sun Mining stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Belo Sun Mining include Almaden Minerals (AMM), Yorbeau Resources (YRB), Euro Sun Mining (ESM), Gold Springs Resource (GRC), and Sabre Gold Mines (SGLD). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Almaden Minerals (TSE:AMM) and Belo Sun Mining (TSE:BSX) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and community ranking.
Almaden Minerals has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Belo Sun Mining has a beta of 2.04, meaning that its stock price is 104% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Almaden Minerals had 1 more articles in the media than Belo Sun Mining. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Almaden Minerals and 0 mentions for Belo Sun Mining. Belo Sun Mining's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Almaden Minerals'average media sentiment score.
Belo Sun Mining received 17 more outperform votes than Almaden Minerals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.79% of users gave Almaden Minerals an outperform vote while only 66.28% of users gave Belo Sun Mining an outperform vote.
3.5% of Almaden Minerals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.3% of Belo Sun Mining shares are held by institutional investors. 3.8% of Almaden Minerals shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.2% of Belo Sun Mining shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Belo 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.
Almaden Minerals' return on equity of -16.91% beat Belo Sun Mining's return on equity.
Summary
Belo Sun Mining beats Almaden Minerals on 8 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
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