GEMD vs. PDL, EEE, GMET, COBR, FME, UFO, FMET, ROCK, URAH, and SEFA
Should you be buying Gem Diamonds stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gem Diamonds include Petra Diamonds (PDL), Empire Metals (EEE), Golden Metal Resources (GMET), Cobra Resources (COBR), Future Metals (FME), Alien Metals (UFO), Fulcrum Metals (FMET), Rockfire Resources (ROCK), URA (URAH), and Shefa Gems (SEFA). These companies are all part of the "other precious metals & mining" industry.
Gem Diamonds vs.
Gem Diamonds (LON:GEMD) and Petra Diamonds (LON:PDL) 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 institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.
Petra Diamonds received 440 more outperform votes than Gem Diamonds when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 81.40% of users gave Petra Diamonds an outperform vote while only 77.85% of users gave Gem Diamonds an outperform vote.
57.1% of Gem Diamonds shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.1% of Petra Diamonds shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.8% of Gem Diamonds shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 48.6% of Petra Diamonds shares are owned by company 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.
Gem Diamonds has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Petra Diamonds. Petra Diamonds is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gem Diamonds, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gem Diamonds pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 20.2%. Petra Diamonds pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.2%. Gem Diamonds pays out 392.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Petra Diamonds pays out -57.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Gem Diamonds has a net margin of 0.63% compared to Petra Diamonds' net margin of -4.85%. Gem Diamonds' return on equity of 0.66% beat Petra Diamonds' return on equity.
Gem Diamonds has a beta of 1.51, indicating that its share price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Petra Diamonds has a beta of 1.45, indicating that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Petra Diamonds had 6 more articles in the media than Gem Diamonds. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Petra Diamonds and 0 mentions for Gem Diamonds. Gem Diamonds' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Petra Diamonds' score of -0.47 indicating that Gem Diamonds is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Gem Diamonds beats Petra Diamonds on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:GEMD) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff