MTL vs. PAF, HGM, ACA, RSG, AMRQ, CMCL, THX, ALTN, AAZ, and SRB
Should you be buying Metals Exploration stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Metals Exploration include Pan African Resources (PAF), Highland Gold Mining Limited (HGM.L) (HGM), Acacia Mining (ACA), Resolute Mining (RSG), Amaroq Minerals (AMRQ), Caledonia Mining (CMCL), Thor Explorations (THX), AltynGold (ALTN), Anglo Asian Mining (AAZ), and Serabi Gold (SRB). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Metals Exploration vs. Its Competitors
Pan African Resources (LON:PAF) and Metals Exploration (LON:MTL) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
Pan African Resources currently has a consensus price target of GBX 53, suggesting a potential downside of 14.24%. Given Pan African Resources' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Pan African Resources is more favorable than Metals Exploration.
Metals Exploration has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Pan African Resources. Metals Exploration is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pan African Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
71.5% of Pan African Resources shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.0% of Metals Exploration shares are held by institutional investors. 17.7% of Pan African Resources shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 65.0% of Metals Exploration shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Metals Exploration has a net margin of 83.77% compared to Pan African Resources' net margin of 21.95%. Metals Exploration's return on equity of 86.94% beat Pan African Resources' return on equity.
In the previous week, Pan African Resources and Pan African Resources both had 1 articles in the media. Metals Exploration's average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat Pan African Resources' score of 0.29 indicating that Metals Exploration is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Pan African Resources has a beta of 0.89, suggesting that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Metals Exploration has a beta of 0.19, suggesting that its share price is 81% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Pan African Resources beats Metals Exploration on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:MTL) was last updated on 8/28/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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