HOC vs. CEY, HGM, ACA, RSG, PAF, GGP, AMRQ, CMCL, SHG, and TSG
Should you be buying Hochschild Mining stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hochschild Mining include Centamin (CEY), Highland Gold Mining Limited (HGM.L) (HGM), Acacia Mining (ACA), Resolute Mining (RSG), Pan African Resources (PAF), Greatland Gold (GGP), Amaroq Minerals (AMRQ), Caledonia Mining (CMCL), Shanta Gold (SHG), and Trans-Siberian Gold (TSG). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Centamin (LON:CEY) and Hochschild Mining (LON:HOC) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, profitability and risk.
Centamin has higher revenue and earnings than Hochschild Mining. Hochschild Mining is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Centamin, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Centamin has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hochschild Mining has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Centamin pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Hochschild Mining pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Centamin pays out 5,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Hochschild Mining pays out -5,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
61.7% of Centamin shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.0% of Hochschild Mining shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Centamin shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 38.7% of Hochschild Mining shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Hochschild Mining had 9 more articles in the media than Centamin. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Hochschild Mining and 0 mentions for Centamin. Centamin's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Hochschild Mining's score of 0.38 indicating that Hochschild Mining is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Centamin presently has a consensus price target of GBX 150, suggesting a potential upside of 25.73%. Hochschild Mining has a consensus price target of GBX 170, suggesting a potential downside of 8.90%. Given Hochschild Mining's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Centamin is more favorable than Hochschild Mining.
Centamin has a net margin of 10.35% compared to Centamin's net margin of -7.93%. Hochschild Mining's return on equity of 14.33% beat Centamin's return on equity.
Centamin received 435 more outperform votes than Hochschild Mining when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.48% of users gave Centamin an outperform vote while only 44.57% of users gave Hochschild Mining an outperform vote.
Summary
Centamin beats Hochschild Mining on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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