ELR vs. MPVD, DIAM, ORV, AUMN, ASM, LUC, and TML
Should you be buying Eastern Platinum stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eastern Platinum include Mountain Province Diamonds (MPVD), Star Diamond (DIAM), Orvana Minerals (ORV), Golden Minerals (AUMN), Avino Silver & Gold Mines (ASM), Lucara Diamond (LUC), and Treasury Metals (TML). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Mountain Province Diamonds (TSE:MPVD) and Eastern Platinum (TSE:ELR) 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 media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership and dividends.
0.6% of Mountain Province Diamonds shares are owned by institutional investors. 36.1% of Mountain Province Diamonds shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 22.3% of Eastern Platinum shares are owned 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.
In the previous week, Mountain Province Diamonds had 1 more articles in the media than Eastern Platinum. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Mountain Province Diamonds and 1 mentions for Eastern Platinum. Mountain Province Diamonds' average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Eastern Platinum's score of 0.00 indicating that Eastern Platinum is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Eastern Platinum has a net margin of 13.36% compared to Eastern Platinum's net margin of -13.29%. Mountain Province Diamonds' return on equity of 14.86% beat Eastern Platinum's return on equity.
Eastern Platinum has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Mountain Province Diamonds. Mountain Province Diamonds is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eastern Platinum, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Mountain Province Diamonds received 6 more outperform votes than Eastern Platinum when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.21% of users gave Eastern Platinum an outperform vote while only 56.28% of users gave Mountain Province Diamonds an outperform vote.
Mountain Province Diamonds has a beta of 2.19, suggesting that its stock price is 119% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eastern Platinum has a beta of 1.51, suggesting that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Mountain Province Diamonds beats Eastern Platinum on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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