ECR vs. CORA, LEX, GRL, GDP, SGZ, ORR, GCAT, CNG, XTR, and PUR
Should you be buying ECR Minerals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ECR Minerals include Cora Gold (CORA), Lexington Gold (LEX), Goldstone Resources (GRL), Goldplat (GDP), Scotgold Resources (SGZ), Oriole Resources (ORR), Caracal Gold (GCAT), China Nonferrous Gold (CNG), Xtract Resources (XTR), and Pure Gold Mining (PUR). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
ECR Minerals vs.
Cora Gold (LON:CORA) and ECR Minerals (LON:ECR) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, valuation, earnings and community ranking.
Cora Gold's return on equity of -3.29% beat ECR Minerals' return on equity.
Cora Gold received 48 more outperform votes than ECR Minerals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.09% of users gave ECR Minerals an outperform vote while only 65.57% of users gave Cora Gold an outperform vote.
Cora Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ECR Minerals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cora Gold has a beta of 0.46, meaning that its stock price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ECR Minerals has a beta of 1.44, meaning that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Cora Gold had 2 more articles in the media than ECR Minerals. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Cora Gold and 0 mentions for ECR Minerals. Cora Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat ECR Minerals' score of 0.00 indicating that Cora Gold is being referred to more favorably in the media.
1.6% of ECR Minerals shares are owned by institutional investors. 65.2% of Cora Gold shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.8% of ECR Minerals shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Cora Gold beats ECR Minerals on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (LON:ECR) was last updated on 3/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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