MPVD vs. ELR, DIAM, ORV, AUMN, ASM, LUC, and TI
Should you be buying Mountain Province Diamonds stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mountain Province Diamonds include Eastern Platinum (ELR), Star Diamond (DIAM), Orvana Minerals (ORV), Golden Minerals (AUMN), Avino Silver & Gold Mines (ASM), Lucara Diamond (LUC), and Titan Mining (TI). 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 superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and valuation.
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.
Eastern Platinum has a net margin of 13.36% compared to Mountain Province Diamonds' net margin of -13.29%. Eastern Platinum's return on equity of 14.86% beat Mountain Province Diamonds' 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 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.
0.6% of Mountain Province Diamonds shares are held by institutional investors. 36.1% of Mountain Province Diamonds shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 22.3% of Eastern Platinum shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Eastern Platinum had 1 more articles in the media than Mountain Province Diamonds. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Eastern Platinum and 2 mentions for Mountain Province Diamonds. Eastern Platinum's average media sentiment score of 0.08 beat Mountain Province Diamonds' score of 0.00 indicating that Eastern Platinum is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Eastern Platinum beats Mountain Province Diamonds on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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