SHG vs. CMCL, MTL, THX, AAZ, SAV, CNR, HUM, AMRQ, SRB, and GGP
Should you be buying Shanta Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Shanta Gold include Caledonia Mining (CMCL), Metals Exploration (MTL), Thor Explorations (THX), Anglo Asian Mining (AAZ), Savannah Resources (SAV), Condor Gold (CNR), Hummingbird Resources (HUM), Amaroq Minerals (AMRQ), Serabi Gold (SRB), and Greatland Gold (GGP). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Caledonia Mining (LON:CMCL) and Shanta Gold (LON:SHG) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, dividends and community ranking.
Caledonia Mining pays an annual dividend of GBX 44 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. Shanta Gold pays an annual dividend of GBX 0 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Caledonia Mining pays out -8,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Shanta Gold pays out 25.6% 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. Caledonia Mining is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Shanta Gold has higher revenue and earnings than Caledonia Mining. Caledonia Mining is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Shanta Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Shanta Gold has a net margin of 8.96% compared to Shanta Gold's net margin of -6.74%. Caledonia Mining's return on equity of 8.47% beat Shanta Gold's return on equity.
Caledonia Mining received 4 more outperform votes than Shanta Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 82.73% of users gave Shanta Gold an outperform vote while only 72.88% of users gave Caledonia Mining an outperform vote.
Caledonia Mining has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shanta Gold has a beta of 0.45, meaning that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Caledonia Mining had 1 more articles in the media than Shanta Gold. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Caledonia Mining and 0 mentions for Shanta Gold. Caledonia Mining's average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat Shanta Gold's score of 0.00 indicating that Shanta Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
39.4% of Caledonia Mining shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.1% of Shanta Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.4% of Caledonia Mining shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 27.2% of Shanta Gold shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Shanta Gold beats Caledonia Mining on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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