CFF vs. ORV, and ELR
Should you be buying Conifex Timber stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Conifex Timber include Orvana Minerals (ORV), and Eastern Platinum (ELR). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Orvana Minerals (TSE:ORV) and Conifex Timber (TSE:CFF) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Orvana Minerals has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Conifex Timber has a beta of 1.51, meaning that its share price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Conifex Timber has a consensus price target of C$1.13, suggesting a potential upside of 67.91%. Given Orvana Minerals' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Conifex Timber is more favorable than Orvana Minerals.
In the previous week, Orvana Minerals had 1 more articles in the media than Conifex Timber. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Orvana Minerals and 0 mentions for Conifex Timber. Conifex Timber's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Orvana Minerals' score of 0.00 indicating that Orvana Minerals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Orvana Minerals has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Conifex Timber. Orvana Minerals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Conifex Timber, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
40.1% of Conifex Timber shares are owned by institutional investors. 52.0% of Orvana Minerals shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.7% of Conifex Timber shares are owned by 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.
Orvana Minerals has a net margin of -4.81% compared to Orvana Minerals' net margin of -19.21%. Conifex Timber's return on equity of -8.75% beat Orvana Minerals' return on equity.
Conifex Timber received 66 more outperform votes than Orvana Minerals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 78.43% of users gave Orvana Minerals an outperform vote while only 52.69% of users gave Conifex Timber an outperform vote.
Summary
Orvana Minerals beats Conifex Timber on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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