ECR vs. GDP, SGZ, ORR, GRL, XTR, GCAT, CNG, PUR, AVM, and CGNR
Should you be buying ECR Minerals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ECR Minerals include Goldplat (GDP), Scotgold Resources (SGZ), Oriole Resources (ORR), Goldstone Resources (GRL), Xtract Resources (XTR), Caracal Gold (GCAT), China Nonferrous Gold (CNG), Pure Gold Mining (PUR), Avocet Mining (AVM), and Conroy Gold and Natural Resources (CGNR). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
ECR Minerals vs. Its Competitors
ECR Minerals (LON:ECR) and Goldplat (LON:GDP) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, risk and analyst recommendations.
Goldplat received 141 more outperform votes than ECR Minerals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.69% of users gave Goldplat an outperform vote while only 68.09% of users gave ECR Minerals an outperform vote.
ECR Minerals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Goldplat, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Goldplat has a net margin of 3.80% compared to ECR Minerals' net margin of 0.00%. Goldplat's return on equity of 23.64% beat ECR Minerals' return on equity.
1.6% of ECR Minerals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.0% of Goldplat shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.8% of ECR Minerals shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 32.6% of Goldplat shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
ECR Minerals has a beta of 1.44, suggesting that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Goldplat has a beta of 0.28, suggesting that its stock price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Goldplat's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat ECR Minerals' score of 0.00 indicating that Goldplat is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Goldplat beats ECR Minerals on 9 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (LON:ECR) was last updated on 6/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
