MMA vs. NGC, AGX, PML, LLG, LIT, LRA, LEM, FPC, CDB, and TORQ
Should you be buying Midnight Sun Mining stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Midnight Sun Mining include Northern Graphite (NGC), Silver X Mining (AGX), Panoro Minerals (PML), Mason Graphite (LLG), Argentina Lithium & Energy (LIT), Lara Exploration (LRA), Leading Edge Materials (LEM), Falco Resources (FPC), Cordoba Minerals (CDB), and Torq Resources (TORQ). These companies are all part of the "other industrial metals & mining" industry.
Northern Graphite (CVE:NGC) and Midnight Sun Mining (CVE:MMA) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
Northern Graphite has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Midnight Sun Mining has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Midnight Sun Mining has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Midnight Sun Mining's net margin of -113.08%. Northern Graphite's return on equity of -25.63% beat Midnight Sun Mining's return on equity.
Northern Graphite received 50 more outperform votes than Midnight Sun Mining when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.00% of users gave Northern Graphite an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave Midnight Sun Mining an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Northern Graphite had 3 more articles in the media than Midnight Sun Mining. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Northern Graphite and 1 mentions for Midnight Sun Mining. Northern Graphite's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Midnight Sun Mining's score of 0.16 indicating that Midnight Sun Mining is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Midnight Sun Mining has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Northern Graphite. Midnight Sun Mining is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Northern Graphite, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
1.9% of Northern Graphite shares are held by institutional investors. 3.5% of Northern Graphite shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.1% of Midnight Sun Mining shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Northern Graphite beats Midnight Sun Mining on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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