PHC vs. KRPZ, EML, HMI, EDEN, GEMD, GDP, GLR, DCTA, PAT, and KAV
Should you be buying Plant Health Care stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Plant Health Care include Kropz (KRPZ), Emmerson (EML), Harvest Minerals (HMI), Eden Research (EDEN), Gem Diamonds (GEMD), Goldplat (GDP), Galileo Resources (GLR), Directa Plus (DCTA), Panthera Resources (PAT), and Kavango Resources (KAV). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Plant Health Care (LON:PHC) and Kropz (LON:KRPZ) 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 institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, valuation and community ranking.
Plant Health Care has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kropz has a beta of -0.05, indicating that its share price is 105% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Plant Health Care has a net margin of -48.53% compared to Kropz's net margin of -130.41%. Plant Health Care's return on equity of -49.47% beat Kropz's return on equity.
Plant Health Care has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Kropz. Plant Health Care is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kropz, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Plant Health Care had 1 more articles in the media than Kropz. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Plant Health Care and 0 mentions for Kropz. Plant Health Care's average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat Kropz's score of 0.00 indicating that Plant Health Care is being referred to more favorably in the media.
24.8% of Plant Health Care shares are owned by institutional investors. 55.8% of Plant Health Care shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 91.3% of Kropz shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Plant Health Care received 258 more outperform votes than Kropz when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave Kropz an outperform vote while only 71.54% of users gave Plant Health Care an outperform vote.
Summary
Plant Health Care beats Kropz on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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