Eastern Platinum (ELR) Competitors

Orvana Minerals (TSE:ORV) and Eastern Platinum (TSE:ELR) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, earnings and risk.

Is ORV or ELR more profitable?

Eastern Platinum has a net margin of 13.36% compared to Eastern Platinum's net margin of -4.81%. Orvana Minerals' return on equity of 14.86% beat Eastern Platinum's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Orvana Minerals	-4.81%	-8.75%	-0.27%
Eastern Platinum	13.36%	14.86%	4.29%

Does the media favor ORV or ELR?

In the previous week, Orvana Minerals had 1 more articles in the media than Eastern Platinum. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Orvana Minerals and 2 mentions for Eastern Platinum. Eastern Platinum's average media sentiment score of 0.41 beat Orvana Minerals' score of -0.44 indicating that Orvana Minerals is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Orvana Minerals	0 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Eastern Platinum	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Does the MarketBeat Community favor ORV or ELR?

Orvana Minerals received 5 more outperform votes than Eastern Platinum when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 78.43% of users gave Orvana Minerals an outperform vote while only 60.21% of users gave Eastern Platinum an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Orvana Minerals	Outperform Votes 120 78.43%	Underperform Votes 33 21.57%
Eastern Platinum	Outperform Votes 115 60.21%	Underperform Votes 76 39.79%

Do analysts rate ORV or ELR?

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Orvana Minerals	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A
Eastern Platinum	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, ORV or ELR?

Eastern Platinum has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Orvana Minerals. Orvana Minerals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eastern Platinum, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Orvana Minerals	C$96.27M	0.28	-C$4.63M	-C$0.04	-5.00
Eastern Platinum	C$88.85M	0.33	C$11.87M	C$0.10	1.45

Which has more risk and volatility, ORV or ELR?

Orvana Minerals has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eastern Platinum has a beta of 1.56, meaning that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Eastern Platinum beats Orvana Minerals on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.