MTL vs. HOC, CEY, HGM, PAF, ACA, RSG, AMRQ, CMCL, THX, and AAZ
Should you be buying Metals Exploration stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Metals Exploration include Hochschild Mining (HOC), Centamin (CEY), Highland Gold Mining Limited (HGM.L) (HGM), Pan African Resources (PAF), Acacia Mining (ACA), Resolute Mining (RSG), Amaroq Minerals (AMRQ), Caledonia Mining (CMCL), Thor Explorations (THX), and Anglo Asian Mining (AAZ). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Metals Exploration vs. Its Competitors
Hochschild Mining (LON:HOC) and Metals Exploration (LON:MTL) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, media sentiment, valuation and dividends.
Metals Exploration has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Hochschild Mining. Metals Exploration is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hochschild Mining, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hochschild Mining presently has a consensus target price of GBX 324, indicating a potential upside of 22.17%. Given Hochschild Mining's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Hochschild Mining is more favorable than Metals Exploration.
Metals Exploration has a net margin of 83.77% compared to Hochschild Mining's net margin of 3.79%. Metals Exploration's return on equity of 86.94% beat Hochschild Mining's return on equity.
48.0% of Hochschild Mining shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.0% of Metals Exploration shares are owned by institutional investors. 38.7% of Hochschild Mining shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 65.0% of Metals Exploration 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.
Hochschild Mining has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Metals Exploration has a beta of 0.19, indicating that its stock price is 81% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Hochschild Mining had 2 more articles in the media than Metals Exploration. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Hochschild Mining and 2 mentions for Metals Exploration. Metals Exploration's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Hochschild Mining's score of 0.14 indicating that Metals Exploration is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Hochschild Mining beats Metals Exploration on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:MTL) was last updated on 7/16/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
