PAF vs. CEY, HGM, ACA, HOC, RSG, GGP, AMRQ, CMCL, SHG, and TSG
Should you be buying Pan African Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pan African Resources include Centamin (CEY), Highland Gold Mining Limited (HGM.L) (HGM), Acacia Mining (ACA), Hochschild Mining (HOC), Resolute Mining (RSG), Greatland Gold (GGP), Amaroq Minerals (AMRQ), Caledonia Mining (CMCL), Shanta Gold (SHG), and Trans-Siberian Gold (TSG). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Centamin (LON:CEY) and Pan African Resources (LON:PAF) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Centamin has a beta of 0.58, meaning that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pan African Resources has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Centamin has higher revenue and earnings than Pan African Resources. Pan African Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Centamin, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
61.7% of Centamin shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.9% of Pan African Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Centamin shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.7% of Pan African Resources shares are owned 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.
Pan African Resources has a net margin of 20.79% compared to Pan African Resources' net margin of 10.35%. Centamin's return on equity of 23.96% beat Pan African Resources' return on equity.
Centamin currently has a consensus price target of GBX 155, indicating a potential upside of 27.99%. Pan African Resources has a consensus price target of GBX 25, indicating a potential downside of 12.28%. Given Pan African Resources' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Centamin is more favorable than Pan African Resources.
In the previous week, Centamin had 7 more articles in the media than Pan African Resources. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Centamin and 0 mentions for Pan African Resources. Pan African Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Centamin's score of 0.00 indicating that Centamin is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Centamin pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Pan African Resources pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Centamin pays out 5,000.0% 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 3,333.3% 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 is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Centamin received 431 more outperform votes than Pan African Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 76.24% of users gave Pan African Resources an outperform vote while only 65.56% of users gave Centamin an outperform vote.
Summary
Centamin beats Pan African Resources on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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