NCU vs. CMMC, III, ARG, LA, CUU, CYP, FDY, HI, MIN, and TM
Should you be buying Nevada Copper stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nevada Copper include Copper Mountain Mining (CMMC), Imperial Metals (III), Amerigo Resources (ARG), Los Andes Copper (LA), Copper Fox Metals (CUU), Cypress Development (CYP), Faraday Copper (FDY), Highland Copper (HI), Excelsior Mining (MIN), and Trigon Metals (TM). These companies are all part of the "copper" industry.
Copper Mountain Mining (TSE:CMMC) and Nevada Copper (TSE:NCU) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
In the previous week, Copper Mountain Mining and Copper Mountain Mining both had 1 articles in the media. Copper Mountain Mining's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Nevada Copper's score of 0.11 indicating that Nevada Copper is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Nevada Copper has a consensus target price of C$0.30, indicating a potential upside of 215.79%.
Nevada Copper received 118 more outperform votes than Copper Mountain Mining when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 78.03% of users gave Nevada Copper an outperform vote while only 51.98% of users gave Copper Mountain Mining an outperform vote.
Nevada Copper has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Copper Mountain Mining. Nevada Copper is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Copper Mountain Mining, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Copper Mountain Mining has a net margin of 8.39% compared to Copper Mountain Mining's net margin of 0.00%. Nevada Copper's return on equity of -13.89% beat Copper Mountain Mining's return on equity.
Copper Mountain Mining has a beta of 2.77, meaning that its share price is 177% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nevada Copper has a beta of 2.76, meaning that its share price is 176% more volatile than the S&P 500.
26.9% of Copper Mountain Mining shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.1% of Nevada Copper shares are held by institutional investors. 3.3% of Copper Mountain Mining shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 52.2% of Nevada Copper shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Nevada Copper beats Copper Mountain Mining on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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