BSX vs. AMM, YRB, GRC, and ESM
Should you be buying Belo Sun Mining stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Belo Sun Mining include Almaden Minerals (AMM), Yorbeau Resources (YRB), Gold Springs Resource (GRC), and Euro Sun Mining (ESM). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Almaden Minerals (TSE:AMM) and Belo Sun Mining (TSE:BSX) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, earnings, profitability, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Almaden Minerals' return on equity of -35.53% beat Belo Sun Mining's return on equity.
Almaden Minerals has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Belo Sun Mining has a beta of 2.1, indicating that its share price is 110% more volatile than the S&P 500.
3.8% of Almaden Minerals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.8% of Belo Sun Mining shares are held by institutional investors. 3.8% of Almaden Minerals shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.2% of Belo Sun Mining shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Belo Sun Mining is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Almaden Minerals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Belo Sun Mining received 17 more outperform votes than Almaden Minerals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.79% of users gave Almaden Minerals an outperform vote while only 66.28% of users gave Belo Sun Mining an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Almaden Minerals had 1 more articles in the media than Belo Sun Mining. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Almaden Minerals and 0 mentions for Belo Sun Mining. Belo Sun Mining's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Almaden Minerals' score of 0.00 indicating that Almaden Minerals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Belo Sun Mining beats Almaden Minerals on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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