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Pan African Resources (PAF) Competitors

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GBX 62.20 +0.90 (+1.47%)
As of 08/15/2025 11:51 AM Eastern

PAF vs. AUY, HOC, CEY, HGM, ACA, RSG, AMRQ, MTL, CMCL, and THX

Should you be buying Pan African Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pan African Resources include Yamana Gold (AUY), Hochschild Mining (HOC), Centamin (CEY), Highland Gold Mining Limited (HGM.L) (HGM), Acacia Mining (ACA), Resolute Mining (RSG), Amaroq Minerals (AMRQ), Metals Exploration (MTL), Caledonia Mining (CMCL), and Thor Explorations (THX). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.

Pan African Resources vs. Its Competitors

Yamana Gold (LON:AUY) and Pan African Resources (LON:PAF) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends and risk.

Yamana Gold has a beta of 1.29, suggesting that its stock price is 29% 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.

Pan African Resources has a net margin of 21.95% compared to Yamana Gold's net margin of -54.36%. Pan African Resources' return on equity of 16.03% beat Yamana Gold's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Yamana Gold-54.36% -31.37% -13.38%
Pan African Resources 21.95%16.03%12.99%

63.8% of Yamana Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.5% of Pan African Resources shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Yamana Gold shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 17.7% of Pan African Resources shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Yamana Gold pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share. Pan African Resources pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Yamana Gold pays out -1,204.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Pan African Resources pays out 47.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

Pan African Resources has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Yamana Gold. Yamana Gold 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Yamana Gold£1.81B0.00-£982.30M-£0.83N/A
Pan African Resources£266.93M5.09£58.60M£2.1229.37

In the previous week, Pan African Resources had 1 more articles in the media than Yamana Gold. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Pan African Resources and 0 mentions for Yamana Gold. Yamana Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Pan African Resources'average media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Yamana Gold Neutral
Pan African Resources Neutral

Pan African Resources has a consensus target price of GBX 53, indicating a potential downside of 14.79%. Given Yamana Gold's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Yamana Gold is more favorable than Pan African Resources.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Yamana Gold
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Pan African Resources
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Summary

Pan African Resources beats Yamana Gold on 12 of the 16 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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PAF vs. The Competition

MetricPan African ResourcesGold IndustryMaterials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£1.36B£1.96B£3.34B£3.09B
Dividend Yield2.68%6.07%5.17%5.04%
P/E Ratio29.37514.58118.29174.55
Price / Sales5.09228,361,081,590,274,000.0030,067,542,409,940,300.00282,771.03
Price / Cash11.8722.1124.0127.94
Price / Book3.277.825.875.38
Net Income£58.60M£6.39M£148.86M£5.89B
7 Day Performance-0.48%1.25%1.25%-0.15%
1 Month Performance21.72%5.69%3.67%0.99%
1 Year Performance108.03%52.67%32.80%64.40%

Pan African Resources Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PAF
Pan African Resources
1.0253 of 5 stars
GBX 62.20
+1.5%
GBX 53
-14.8%
+110.8%£1.36B£266.93M29.372,469News Coverage
AUY
Yamana Gold
N/AN/AN/AN/A£4.57B£1.81B-572.2911,600
HOC
Hochschild Mining
1.851 of 5 stars
GBX 300.60
flat
GBX 327
+8.8%
+71.5%£1.95B£1.01B64.123,029News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
CEY
Centamin
N/AN/AGBX 155
+∞
N/A£1.69B£930.75M2,920.004,874
HGM
Highland Gold Mining Limited (HGM.L)
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.09B£415.23M6.47N/A
ACA
Acacia Mining
N/AN/AN/AN/A£959.60M£645.41M468.005,230High Trading Volume
RSG
Resolute Mining
2.2082 of 5 stars
GBX 30
-1.0%
GBX 47
+56.7%
+8.6%£799.30M£817.76M65.1640,000Gap Up
AMRQ
Amaroq Minerals
1.7373 of 5 stars
GBX 75
flat
GBX 125
+66.7%
+16.2%£545.33MN/A-13.92N/ANews Coverage
Analyst Forecast
MTL
Metals Exploration
N/AGBX 13.39
-1.6%
N/A+213.7%£433.88M£260.56M2.52791
CMCL
Caledonia Mining
N/AGBX 1,600
+4.2%
N/A+96.6%£390.32M£221.34M40.341,718Gap Up
THX
Thor Explorations
1.125 of 5 stars
GBX 40.20
+1.8%
GBX 34
-15.4%
+242.9%£334.26M£190.31M6.15N/AAnalyst Forecast

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This page (LON:PAF) was last updated on 8/16/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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