Metals Exploration (MTL) Competitors

Metals Exploration (LON:MTL) and Acacia Mining (LON:ACA) 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 institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, risk and dividends.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor MTL or ACA?

Acacia Mining received 889 more outperform votes than Metals Exploration when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 86.89% of users gave Metals Exploration an outperform vote while only 75.21% of users gave Acacia Mining an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Metals Exploration	Outperform Votes 106 86.89%	Underperform Votes 16 13.11%
Acacia Mining	Outperform Votes 995 75.21%	Underperform Votes 328 24.79%

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of MTL or ACA?

12.0% of Metals Exploration shares are held by institutional investors. 65.0% of Metals Exploration shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Which has higher valuation and earnings, MTL or ACA?

Metals Exploration has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Acacia Mining. Acacia Mining is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Metals Exploration, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Metals Exploration	£260.56M	0.99	£218.27M	£5.32	1.50
Acacia Mining	£645.41M	0.00	N/A	£0.50	N/A

Is MTL or ACA more profitable?

Metals Exploration has a net margin of 83.77% compared to Acacia Mining's net margin of 0.00%. Metals Exploration's return on equity of 86.94% beat Acacia Mining's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Metals Exploration	83.77%	86.94%	3.75%
Acacia Mining	N/A	N/A	N/A

Does the media prefer MTL or ACA?

In the previous week, Metals Exploration had 1 more articles in the media than Acacia Mining. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Metals Exploration and 0 mentions for Acacia Mining. Metals Exploration's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Acacia Mining's score of 0.00 indicating that Metals Exploration is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Metals Exploration	Positive
Acacia Mining	Neutral

Summary

Metals Exploration beats Acacia Mining on 9 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.