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.
ECR Minerals (LON:ECR) and Cora Gold (LON:CORA) 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 media sentiment, risk, community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
ECR Minerals has a beta of 1.44, suggesting that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cora Gold has a beta of 0.46, suggesting that its stock price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Cora Gold's return on equity of -3.29% beat ECR Minerals' return on equity.
In the previous week, Cora Gold had 1 more articles in the media than ECR Minerals. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Cora Gold and 0 mentions for ECR Minerals. Cora Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat ECR Minerals' score of 0.00 indicating that Cora Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
1.6% of ECR Minerals shares are held by institutional investors. 6.8% of ECR Minerals shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 65.2% of Cora Gold shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
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
This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (LON:ECR) was last updated on 3/11/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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