SOLG vs. GFM, SVML, KMR, PRE, CAPD, ECOR, BSE, TRR, KP2, and MNRG
Should you be buying SolGold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SolGold include Griffin Mining (GFM), Sovereign Metals (SVML), Kenmare Resources (KMR), Pensana (PRE), Capital (CAPD), Ecora Resources (ECOR), Base Resources (BSE), Trident Royalties (TRR), Kore Potash (KP2), and MetalNRG (MNRG). These companies are all part of the "other industrial metals & mining" industry.
SolGold vs. Its Competitors
Griffin Mining (LON:GFM) and SolGold (LON:SOLG) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk and earnings.
3.0% of Griffin Mining shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.7% of SolGold shares are held by institutional investors. 43.8% of Griffin Mining shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 52.8% of SolGold shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Griffin Mining has a net margin of 13.15% compared to SolGold's net margin of 0.00%. Griffin Mining's return on equity of 7.86% beat SolGold's return on equity.
Griffin Mining has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SolGold has a beta of 1.2, indicating that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Griffin Mining presently has a consensus price target of GBX 200, suggesting a potential upside of 5.26%. Given Griffin Mining's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Griffin Mining is more favorable than SolGold.
Griffin Mining has higher revenue and earnings than SolGold. SolGold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Griffin Mining, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Griffin Mining had 3 more articles in the media than SolGold. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Griffin Mining and 1 mentions for SolGold. SolGold's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Griffin Mining's score of 0.37 indicating that SolGold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Griffin Mining beats SolGold on 11 of the 15 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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This page (LON:SOLG) was last updated on 7/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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