MPVD vs. SSV, BRC, DEF, BBB, MMG, ARU, PPX, FURA, WAM, and DIAM
Should you be buying Mountain Province Diamonds stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mountain Province Diamonds include Southern Silver Exploration (SSV), Blackrock Silver (BRC), Defiance Silver (DEF), Brixton Metals (BBB), Metallic Minerals (MMG), Aurania Resources (ARU), PPX Mining (PPX), Fura Gems (FURA), Western Alaska Minerals (WAM), and Star Diamond (DIAM). These companies are all part of the "other precious metals & mining" industry.
Mountain Province Diamonds (TSE:MPVD) and Southern Silver Exploration (CVE:SSV) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, valuation and risk.
Mountain Province Diamonds received 77 more outperform votes than Southern Silver Exploration when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.46% of users gave Southern Silver Exploration an outperform vote while only 56.28% of users gave Mountain Province Diamonds an outperform vote.
Mountain Province Diamonds has a beta of 2.19, indicating that its stock price is 119% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Southern Silver Exploration has a beta of 1.89, indicating that its stock price is 89% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Southern Silver Exploration has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Mountain Province Diamonds. Southern Silver Exploration is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mountain Province Diamonds, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Southern Silver Exploration had 2 more articles in the media than Mountain Province Diamonds. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Southern Silver Exploration and 1 mentions for Mountain Province Diamonds. Southern Silver Exploration's average media sentiment score of 0.26 beat Mountain Province Diamonds' score of 0.00 indicating that Southern Silver Exploration is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Southern Silver Exploration has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Mountain Province Diamonds' net margin of -13.29%. Southern Silver Exploration's return on equity of -9.08% beat Mountain Province Diamonds' return on equity.
0.6% of Mountain Province Diamonds shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.2% of Southern Silver Exploration shares are held by institutional investors. 36.1% of Mountain Province Diamonds shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 27.1% of Southern Silver Exploration shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Southern Silver Exploration has a consensus target price of C$0.60, indicating a potential upside of 160.87%. Given Southern Silver Exploration's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Southern Silver Exploration is more favorable than Mountain Province Diamonds.
Summary
Southern Silver Exploration beats Mountain Province Diamonds on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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