ANDE vs. FSM, SAND, WS, NGVT, HWKN, CGAU, KRO, SCL, OEC, and NGD
Should you be buying Andersons stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Andersons include Fortuna Silver Mines (FSM), Sandstorm Gold (SAND), Worthington Steel (WS), Ingevity (NGVT), Hawkins (HWKN), Centerra Gold (CGAU), Kronos Worldwide (KRO), Stepan (SCL), Orion (OEC), and New Gold (NGD). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Fortuna Silver Mines (NYSE:FSM) and Andersons (NASDAQ:ANDE) 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 media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
Andersons has a net margin of 0.89% compared to Andersons' net margin of -3.94%. Fortuna Silver Mines' return on equity of 7.93% beat Andersons' return on equity.
Andersons has higher revenue and earnings than Fortuna Silver Mines. Fortuna Silver Mines is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Andersons, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
33.8% of Fortuna Silver Mines shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.1% of Andersons shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Fortuna Silver Mines shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.1% of Andersons shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Fortuna Silver Mines received 39 more outperform votes than Andersons when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.71% of users gave Andersons an outperform vote while only 53.55% of users gave Fortuna Silver Mines an outperform vote.
Fortuna Silver Mines has a beta of 1.57, meaning that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Andersons has a beta of 0.69, meaning that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Fortuna Silver Mines currently has a consensus target price of $7.63, suggesting a potential upside of 33.77%. Andersons has a consensus target price of $62.50, suggesting a potential upside of 21.74%. Given Andersons' higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Fortuna Silver Mines is more favorable than Andersons.
In the previous week, Fortuna Silver Mines had 10 more articles in the media than Andersons. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Fortuna Silver Mines and 2 mentions for Andersons. Andersons' average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Fortuna Silver Mines' score of 0.21 indicating that Fortuna Silver Mines is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Andersons beats Fortuna Silver Mines on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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