PAF vs. CEY, HOC, HGM, ACA, GGP, RSG, AMRQ, SHG, CMCL, and THX
Should you be buying Pan African Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pan African Resources include Centamin (CEY), Hochschild Mining (HOC), Highland Gold Mining Limited (HGM.L) (HGM), Acacia Mining (ACA), Greatland Gold (GGP), Resolute Mining (RSG), Amaroq Minerals (AMRQ), Shanta Gold (SHG), Caledonia Mining (CMCL), and Thor Explorations (THX). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Pan African Resources vs.
Centamin (LON:CEY) and Pan African Resources (LON:PAF) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, valuation and community ranking.
Centamin received 429 more outperform votes than Pan African Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 76.42% of users gave Pan African Resources an outperform vote while only 65.62% of users gave Centamin an outperform vote.
90.8% of Centamin shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.5% of Pan African Resources shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Centamin shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 17.7% of Pan African Resources shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Centamin has a beta of 0.56, suggesting that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pan African Resources has a beta of 0.89, suggesting that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Pan African Resources has a net margin of 21.24% compared to Centamin's net margin of 9.10%. Pan African Resources' return on equity of 24.03% beat Centamin's return on equity.
In the previous week, Pan African Resources had 2 more articles in the media than Centamin. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Pan African Resources and 0 mentions for Centamin. Centamin's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Pan African Resources'average media sentiment score.
Centamin currently has a consensus price target of GBX 155, indicating a potential upside of 0.00%. Pan African Resources has a consensus price target of GBX 36.50, indicating a potential downside of 8.75%. Given Centamin's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Centamin is more favorable than Pan African Resources.
Centamin pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share. Pan African Resources pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Centamin pays out 6,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Pan African Resources pays out 3,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Pan African Resources is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Centamin has higher revenue and earnings than Pan African Resources. Centamin is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pan African Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Pan African Resources beats Centamin on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:PAF) was last updated on 2/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
