PAF vs. HOC, GGP, CEY, HGM, ACA, AMRQ, RSG, THX, MTL, and CMCL
Should you be buying Pan African Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pan African Resources include Hochschild Mining (HOC), Greatland Gold (GGP), Centamin (CEY), Highland Gold Mining Limited (HGM.L) (HGM), Acacia Mining (ACA), Amaroq Minerals (AMRQ), Resolute Mining (RSG), Thor Explorations (THX), Metals Exploration (MTL), and Caledonia Mining (CMCL). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Pan African Resources vs.
Hochschild Mining (LON:HOC) and Pan African Resources (LON:PAF) 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, community ranking, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
Pan African Resources has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Hochschild Mining. Pan African Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hochschild Mining, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
48.0% of Hochschild Mining shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.5% of Pan African Resources shares are held by institutional investors. 38.7% of Hochschild Mining shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.7% of Pan African Resources shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Hochschild Mining and Pan African Resources both received 405 outperform votes by MarketBeat users. However, 76.42% of users gave Pan African Resources an outperform vote while only 45.00% of users gave Hochschild Mining an outperform vote.
Pan African Resources has a net margin of 21.95% compared to Hochschild Mining's net margin of 3.79%. Pan African Resources' return on equity of 16.03% beat Hochschild Mining's return on equity.
In the previous week, Hochschild Mining had 7 more articles in the media than Pan African Resources. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Hochschild Mining and 4 mentions for Pan African Resources. Hochschild Mining's average media sentiment score of 0.36 beat Pan African Resources' score of 0.19 indicating that Hochschild Mining is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Hochschild Mining pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Pan African Resources pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Hochschild Mining pays out 85.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Pan African Resources pays out 47.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Pan African Resources is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Hochschild Mining has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pan African Resources has a beta of 0.89, suggesting that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Hochschild Mining currently has a consensus target price of GBX 290, suggesting a potential upside of 6.62%. Pan African Resources has a consensus target price of GBX 36.50, suggesting a potential downside of 16.09%. Given Hochschild Mining's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Hochschild Mining is more favorable than Pan African Resources.
Summary
Pan African Resources beats Hochschild Mining on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:PAF) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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