AFP vs. SML, ACP, BMV, JAY, VAST, LND, GROC, FRG, JAN, and ALBA
Should you be buying African Pioneer stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of African Pioneer include Strategic Minerals (SML), Armadale Capital (ACP), Bluebird Merchant Ventures (BMV), Bluejay Mining (JAY), Vast Resources (VAST), Landore Resources (LND), GreenRoc Mining (GROC), Firering Strategic Minerals (FRG), Jangada Mines (JAN), and Alba Mineral Resources (ALBA). These companies are all part of the "other industrial metals & mining" industry.
African Pioneer (LON:AFP) and Strategic Minerals (LON:SML) 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 valuation, dividends, risk, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Strategic Minerals had 3 more articles in the media than African Pioneer. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Strategic Minerals and 1 mentions for African Pioneer. Strategic Minerals' average media sentiment score of 0.22 beat African Pioneer's score of 0.00 indicating that Strategic Minerals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
African Pioneer has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Strategic Minerals' net margin of -0.26%. Strategic Minerals' return on equity of -0.04% beat African Pioneer's return on equity.
Strategic Minerals received 95 more outperform votes than African Pioneer when rated by MarketBeat users.
African Pioneer has a beta of 0.84, suggesting that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Strategic Minerals has a beta of 0.53, suggesting that its stock price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.
3.9% of African Pioneer shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.0% of Strategic Minerals shares are held by institutional investors. 59.5% of African Pioneer shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 19.5% of Strategic Minerals shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Strategic Minerals beats African Pioneer on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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