LUC vs. MTA, ITR, DNG, PTM, AXU, BRC, DEF, SSV, CKG, and VIPR
Should you be buying Lucara Diamond stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lucara Diamond include Metalla Royalty & Streaming (MTA), Integra Resources (ITR), Dynacor Group (DNG), Platinum Group Metals (PTM), Alexco Resource (AXU), Blackrock Silver (BRC), Defiance Silver (DEF), Southern Silver Exploration (SSV), Chesapeake Gold (CKG), and Silver Viper Minerals (VIPR). These companies are all part of the "other precious metals & mining" industry.
Lucara Diamond vs.
Metalla Royalty & Streaming (CVE:MTA) and Lucara Diamond (TSE:LUC) 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 analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, risk, community ranking and valuation.
Lucara Diamond received 340 more outperform votes than Metalla Royalty & Streaming when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.43% of users gave Metalla Royalty & Streaming an outperform vote while only 65.79% of users gave Lucara Diamond an outperform vote.
13.6% of Metalla Royalty & Streaming shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.6% of Lucara Diamond shares are held by institutional investors. 13.7% of Metalla Royalty & Streaming shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 25.5% of Lucara Diamond shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Metalla Royalty & Streaming has a beta of 1.46, suggesting that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lucara Diamond has a beta of 1.38, suggesting that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lucara Diamond has a net margin of -20.70% compared to Metalla Royalty & Streaming's net margin of -452.81%. Metalla Royalty & Streaming's return on equity of -9.98% beat Lucara Diamond's return on equity.
In the previous week, Metalla Royalty & Streaming had 3 more articles in the media than Lucara Diamond. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Metalla Royalty & Streaming and 1 mentions for Lucara Diamond. Metalla Royalty & Streaming's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Lucara Diamond's score of 0.04 indicating that Metalla Royalty & Streaming is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lucara Diamond has a consensus price target of C$0.50, suggesting a potential upside of 108.33%. Given Lucara Diamond's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Lucara Diamond is more favorable than Metalla Royalty & Streaming.
Metalla Royalty & Streaming pays an annual dividend of C$0.05 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Lucara Diamond pays an annual dividend of C$0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 41.7%. Metalla Royalty & Streaming pays out -14.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lucara Diamond pays out -94.8% 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. Lucara Diamond is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Metalla Royalty & Streaming has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Lucara Diamond. Metalla Royalty & Streaming is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lucara Diamond, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Lucara Diamond beats Metalla Royalty & Streaming on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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