FVI vs. AGI, YRI, WFT, BTO, LUG, ELD, OR, PRU, ASR, and EQX
Should you be buying Fortuna Silver Mines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fortuna Silver Mines include Alamos Gold (AGI), Yamana Gold (YRI), West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) (WFT), B2Gold (BTO), Lundin Gold (LUG), Eldorado Gold (ELD), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Perseus Mining (PRU), Alacer Gold (ASR), and Equinox Gold (EQX). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Fortuna Silver Mines (TSE:FVI) and Alamos Gold (TSE:AGI) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, risk, earnings, dividends and valuation.
Fortuna Silver Mines has a beta of 1.6, indicating that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alamos Gold has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Fortuna Silver Mines currently has a consensus price target of C$7.55, indicating a potential upside of 10.38%. Alamos Gold has a consensus price target of C$22.55, indicating a potential upside of 2.59%. Given Fortuna Silver Mines' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Fortuna Silver Mines is more favorable than Alamos Gold.
Alamos Gold has higher revenue and earnings than Fortuna Silver Mines. Fortuna Silver Mines is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alamos Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alamos Gold received 358 more outperform votes than Fortuna Silver Mines when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.98% of users gave Alamos Gold an outperform vote while only 50.86% of users gave Fortuna Silver Mines an outperform vote.
Alamos Gold has a net margin of 19.41% compared to Fortuna Silver Mines' net margin of -3.98%. Alamos Gold's return on equity of 7.12% beat Fortuna Silver Mines' return on equity.
46.0% of Fortuna Silver Mines shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.8% of Alamos Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Fortuna Silver Mines shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Alamos Gold shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Alamos Gold had 3 more articles in the media than Fortuna Silver Mines. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Alamos Gold and 1 mentions for Fortuna Silver Mines. Alamos Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Fortuna Silver Mines' score of 0.59 indicating that Alamos Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Alamos Gold beats Fortuna Silver Mines on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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