MDI vs. ALS, SKE, AOT, WRN, ETG, FAR, NDM, FVL, LAC, and MUX
Should you be buying Major Drilling Group International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Major Drilling Group International include Altius Minerals (ALS), Skeena Resources (SKE), Ascot Resources (AOT), Western Copper and Gold (WRN), Entrée Resources (ETG), Foraco International (FAR), Northern Dynasty Minerals (NDM), Freegold Ventures (FVL), Lithium Americas (LAC), and McEwen Mining (MUX). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Altius Minerals (TSE:ALS) and Major Drilling Group International (TSE:MDI) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership and dividends.
Altius Minerals currently has a consensus price target of C$22.64, indicating a potential upside of 7.06%. Major Drilling Group International has a consensus price target of C$14.00, indicating a potential upside of 47.37%. Given Altius Minerals' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Major Drilling Group International is more favorable than Altius Minerals.
24.7% of Altius Minerals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.0% of Major Drilling Group International shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.8% of Altius Minerals shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Major Drilling Group International shares are owned by 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.
Altius Minerals has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Major Drilling Group International has a beta of 1.66, suggesting that its stock price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Altius Minerals received 30 more outperform votes than Major Drilling Group International when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.17% of users gave Major Drilling Group International an outperform vote while only 61.07% of users gave Altius Minerals an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Altius Minerals had 2 more articles in the media than Major Drilling Group International. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Altius Minerals and 0 mentions for Major Drilling Group International. Major Drilling Group International's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Altius Minerals' score of 0.63 indicating that Altius Minerals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Altius Minerals has a net margin of 13.83% compared to Altius Minerals' net margin of 8.84%. Altius Minerals' return on equity of 14.08% beat Major Drilling Group International's return on equity.
Altius Minerals pays an annual dividend of C$0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Major Drilling Group International pays an annual dividend of C$0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Altius Minerals pays out 160.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Major Drilling Group International pays out 5.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Major Drilling Group International has higher revenue and earnings than Altius Minerals. Major Drilling Group International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Altius Minerals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Major Drilling Group International beats Altius Minerals on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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