NXE vs. DML, EFR, FCU, ISO, URE, URC, LAM, FUU, MGA, and GXU
Should you be buying NexGen Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NexGen Energy include Denison Mines (DML), Energy Fuels (EFR), Fission Uranium (FCU), IsoEnergy (ISO), Ur-Energy (URE), Uranium Royalty (URC), Laramide Resources (LAM), F3 Uranium (FUU), Mega Uranium (MGA), and GoviEx Uranium (GXU). These companies are all part of the "uranium" industry.
Denison Mines (TSE:DML) and NexGen Energy (TSE:NXE) are both mid-cap energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.
51.5% of Denison Mines shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.4% of NexGen Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Denison Mines shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.2% of NexGen Energy shares are held by company 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.
Denison Mines has a net margin of 1,986.78% compared to Denison Mines' net margin of 0.00%. NexGen Energy's return on equity of 13.47% beat Denison Mines' return on equity.
Denison Mines received 425 more outperform votes than NexGen Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.74% of users gave Denison Mines an outperform vote while only 58.06% of users gave NexGen Energy an outperform vote.
Denison Mines has higher revenue and earnings than NexGen Energy. Denison Mines is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NexGen Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Denison Mines had 1 more articles in the media than NexGen Energy. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Denison Mines and 0 mentions for NexGen Energy. NexGen Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Denison Mines' score of 0.00 indicating that Denison Mines is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Denison Mines currently has a consensus target price of C$3.14, suggesting a potential upside of 9.03%. NexGen Energy has a consensus target price of C$13.28, suggesting a potential upside of 39.80%. Given Denison Mines' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe NexGen Energy is more favorable than Denison Mines.
Denison Mines has a beta of 1.89, meaning that its stock price is 89% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NexGen Energy has a beta of 1.82, meaning that its stock price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Denison Mines beats NexGen Energy on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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