LUC vs. ASM, PTM, DNG, DIAM, MPVD, GGD, PPTA, NCU, ERD, and S
Should you be buying Lucara Diamond stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lucara Diamond include Avino Silver & Gold Mines (ASM), Platinum Group Metals (PTM), Dynacor Group (DNG), Star Diamond (DIAM), Mountain Province Diamonds (MPVD), GoGold Resources (GGD), Perpetua Resources (PPTA), Nevada Copper (NCU), Erdene Resource Development (ERD), and Sherritt International (S). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Avino Silver & Gold Mines (TSE:ASM) and Lucara Diamond (TSE:LUC) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment and dividends.
Avino Silver & Gold Mines has a beta of 1.98, indicating that its stock price is 98% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lucara Diamond has a beta of 1.53, indicating that its stock price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500.
7.9% of Avino Silver & Gold Mines shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.5% of Lucara Diamond shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Avino Silver & Gold Mines shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 27.5% of Lucara Diamond shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Avino Silver & Gold Mines has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Lucara Diamond. Lucara Diamond is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Avino Silver & Gold Mines, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lucara Diamond received 340 more outperform votes than Avino Silver & Gold Mines when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Avino Silver & Gold Mines an outperform vote while only 65.91% of users gave Lucara Diamond an outperform vote.
Avino Silver & Gold Mines has a net margin of 1.24% compared to Avino Silver & Gold Mines' net margin of -11.38%. Lucara Diamond's return on equity of 0.53% beat Avino Silver & Gold Mines' return on equity.
In the previous week, Avino Silver & Gold Mines had 9 more articles in the media than Lucara Diamond. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Avino Silver & Gold Mines and 2 mentions for Lucara Diamond. Lucara Diamond's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Avino Silver & Gold Mines' score of 0.34 indicating that Avino Silver & Gold Mines is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Avino Silver & Gold Mines beats Lucara Diamond on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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