ECR vs. LEX, GDP, SGZ, ORR, GRL, GCAT, XTR, HAMA, CNG, and PUR
Should you be buying ECR Minerals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ECR Minerals include Lexington Gold (LEX), Goldplat (GDP), Scotgold Resources (SGZ), Oriole Resources (ORR), Goldstone Resources (GRL), Caracal Gold (GCAT), Xtract Resources (XTR), Hamak Gold (HAMA), China Nonferrous Gold (CNG), and Pure Gold Mining (PUR). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
ECR Minerals vs. Its Competitors
Lexington Gold (LON:LEX) and ECR Minerals (LON:ECR) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations and dividends.
1.6% of ECR Minerals shares are owned by institutional investors. 65.4% of Lexington Gold shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.8% of ECR Minerals shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, ECR Minerals' average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Lexington Gold's score of 0.44 indicating that ECR Minerals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ECR Minerals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lexington Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lexington Gold's return on equity of 2.63% beat ECR Minerals' return on equity.
Lexington Gold has a beta of -1.04, suggesting that its stock price is 204% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ECR Minerals has a beta of 1.44, suggesting that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Lexington Gold beats ECR Minerals on 6 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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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 8/8/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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