PAF vs. CEY, HOC, GGP, HGM, ACA, AMRQ, RSG, CMCL, MTL, 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), Greatland Gold (GGP), Highland Gold Mining Limited (HGM.L) (HGM), Acacia Mining (ACA), Amaroq Minerals (AMRQ), Resolute Mining (RSG), Caledonia Mining (CMCL), Metals Exploration (MTL), and Thor Explorations (THX). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Pan African Resources vs.
Pan African Resources (LON:PAF) and Centamin (LON:CEY) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.
Pan African Resources has a net margin of 21.95% compared to Centamin's net margin of 9.10%. Pan African Resources' return on equity of 16.03% beat Centamin's return on equity.
71.5% of Pan African Resources shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.8% of Centamin shares are held by institutional investors. 17.7% of Pan African Resources shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Centamin shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Pan African Resources has a beta of 0.89, suggesting that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Centamin has a beta of 0.56, suggesting that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Pan African Resources pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Centamin pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share. Pan African Resources pays out 47.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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 is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Pan African Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Centamin'saverage media sentiment score.
Pan African Resources presently has a consensus target price of GBX 36.50, suggesting a potential upside of 3.25%. Centamin has a consensus target price of GBX 155, suggesting a potential upside of 0.00%. Given Pan African Resources' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Pan African Resources is more favorable than Centamin.
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.
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.
Summary
Pan African Resources beats Centamin on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:PAF) was last updated on 3/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
