DIAM vs. ELR, MPVD, ORV, AUMN, ASM, and AVL
Should you be buying Star Diamond stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Star Diamond include Eastern Platinum (ELR), Mountain Province Diamonds (MPVD), Orvana Minerals (ORV), Golden Minerals (AUMN), Avino Silver & Gold Mines (ASM), and Avalon Advanced Materials (AVL). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Eastern Platinum (TSE:ELR) and Star Diamond (TSE:DIAM) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and risk.
Eastern Platinum received 80 more outperform votes than Star Diamond when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 79.55% of users gave Star Diamond an outperform vote while only 60.21% of users gave Eastern Platinum an outperform vote.
Eastern Platinum has higher revenue and earnings than Star Diamond. Star Diamond is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eastern Platinum, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Eastern Platinum has a net margin of 13.36% compared to Eastern Platinum's net margin of 0.00%. Star Diamond's return on equity of 14.86% beat Eastern Platinum's return on equity.
In the previous week, Star Diamond had 10 more articles in the media than Eastern Platinum. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Star Diamond and 3 mentions for Eastern Platinum. Eastern Platinum's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Star Diamond's score of 0.08 indicating that Star Diamond is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Eastern Platinum has a beta of 1.51, indicating that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Star Diamond has a beta of 2.13, indicating that its stock price is 113% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Eastern Platinum beats Star Diamond on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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