MTL vs. CEY, PAF, HGM, ACA, RSG, AMRQ, CMCL, THX, AAZ, and ALTN
Should you be buying Metals Exploration stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Metals Exploration include Centamin (CEY), 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), Anglo Asian Mining (AAZ), and AltynGold (ALTN). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Metals Exploration vs. Its Competitors
Centamin (LON:CEY) and Metals Exploration (LON:MTL) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Metals Exploration has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Centamin. Centamin is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Metals Exploration, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
90.8% of Centamin shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.0% of Metals Exploration shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Centamin shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 65.0% of Metals Exploration shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Centamin presently has a consensus price target of GBX 155, suggesting a potential upside of 0.00%. Given Centamin's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Centamin is more favorable than Metals Exploration.
Centamin has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Metals Exploration has a beta of 0.19, indicating that its stock price is 81% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Metals Exploration had 1 more articles in the media than Centamin. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Metals Exploration and 0 mentions for Centamin. Metals Exploration's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Centamin's score of 0.00 indicating that Metals Exploration is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Metals Exploration has a net margin of 83.77% compared to Centamin's net margin of 9.10%. Metals Exploration's return on equity of 86.94% beat Centamin's return on equity.
Summary
Centamin beats Metals Exploration on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:MTL) was last updated on 8/8/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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