MDI vs. AFM, ALS, LAC, SKE, POM, AMC, SLI, GLO, ETG, and WRN
Should you be buying Major Drilling Group International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Major Drilling Group International include Alphamin Resources (AFM), Altius Minerals (ALS), Lithium Americas (LAC), Skeena Resources (SKE), PolyMet Mining (POM), Arizona Metals (AMC), Standard Lithium (SLI), Global Atomic (GLO), Entrée Resources (ETG), and Western Copper and Gold (WRN). These companies are all part of the "other industrial metals & mining" industry.
Major Drilling Group International (TSE:MDI) and Alphamin Resources (CVE:AFM) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and risk.
Major Drilling Group International currently has a consensus target price of C$14.00, suggesting a potential upside of 52.01%. Given Major Drilling Group International's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Major Drilling Group International is more favorable than Alphamin Resources.
Major Drilling Group International has higher revenue and earnings than Alphamin Resources. Major Drilling Group International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alphamin Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Alphamin Resources had 3 more articles in the media than Major Drilling Group International. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Alphamin Resources and 2 mentions for Major Drilling Group International. Major Drilling Group International's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Alphamin Resources' score of 0.15 indicating that Major Drilling Group International is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Alphamin Resources has a net margin of 16.36% compared to Major Drilling Group International's net margin of 8.84%. Alphamin Resources' return on equity of 16.79% beat Major Drilling Group International's return on equity.
Major Drilling Group International received 137 more outperform votes than Alphamin Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.41% of users gave Alphamin Resources an outperform vote while only 66.17% of users gave Major Drilling Group International an outperform vote.
Major Drilling Group International has a beta of 1.65, meaning that its stock price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alphamin Resources has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.
57.0% of Major Drilling Group International shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.3% of Alphamin Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Major Drilling Group International shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 58.6% of Alphamin Resources shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Major Drilling Group International pays an annual dividend of C$0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Alphamin Resources pays an annual dividend of C$0.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. Major Drilling Group International pays out 5.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alphamin Resources pays out 120.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
Major Drilling Group International beats Alphamin Resources on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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