PDL vs. EEE, EUA, GEM, SLP, THS, KOD, WYN, ATM, MBH, and THX
Should you be buying Petra Diamonds stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Petra Diamonds include Empire Metals (EEE), Eurasia Mining (EUA), Gemfields Group (GEM), Sylvania Platinum (SLP), Tharisa (THS), Kodal Minerals (KOD), Wynnstay Group (WYN), Andrada Mining (ATM), Michelmersh Brick (MBH), and Thor Explorations (THX). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Empire Metals (LON:EEE) and Petra Diamonds (LON:PDL) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and institutional ownership.
Empire Metals has a beta of 1.73, suggesting that its share price is 73% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Petra Diamonds has a beta of 1.54, suggesting that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.
6.6% of Empire Metals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.1% of Petra Diamonds shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.3% of Empire Metals shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 31.4% of Petra Diamonds shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Empire Metals and Empire Metals both had 1 articles in the media. Petra Diamonds' average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Empire Metals' score of 0.00 indicating that Empire Metals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Petra Diamonds received 1252 more outperform votes than Empire Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 81.40% of users gave Petra Diamonds an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Empire Metals an outperform vote.
Empire Metals has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Empire Metals' net margin of -29.78%. Empire Metals' return on equity of -16.73% beat Petra Diamonds' return on equity.
Petra Diamonds has a consensus price target of GBX 70, indicating a potential upside of 56.25%. Given Empire Metals' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Petra Diamonds is more favorable than Empire Metals.
Empire Metals has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Petra Diamonds.
Summary
Petra Diamonds beats Empire Metals on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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