FSM vs. CGAU, SA, SAND, IAG, CDE, AG, NFGC, GATO, TGB, and DRD
Should you be buying Fortuna Silver Mines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fortuna Silver Mines include Centerra Gold (CGAU), Seabridge Gold (SA), Sandstorm Gold (SAND), IAMGOLD (IAG), Coeur Mining (CDE), First Majestic Silver (AG), New Found Gold (NFGC), Gatos Silver (GATO), Taseko Mines (TGB), and DRDGOLD (DRD). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
Centerra Gold (NYSE:CGAU) and Fortuna Silver Mines (NYSE:FSM) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, dividends and earnings.
Centerra Gold presently has a consensus target price of $9.55, indicating a potential upside of 50.16%. Fortuna Silver Mines has a consensus target price of $7.63, indicating a potential upside of 59.85%. Given Centerra Gold's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Fortuna Silver Mines is more favorable than Centerra Gold.
55.4% of Centerra Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.8% of Fortuna Silver Mines shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Centerra Gold shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Fortuna Silver Mines shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Centerra Gold has a beta of 0.98, meaning that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fortuna Silver Mines has a beta of 1.64, meaning that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Fortuna Silver Mines received 320 more outperform votes than Centerra Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.48% of users gave Fortuna Silver Mines an outperform vote while only 23.08% of users gave Centerra Gold an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Centerra Gold had 12 more articles in the media than Fortuna Silver Mines. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Centerra Gold and 9 mentions for Fortuna Silver Mines. Centerra Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Fortuna Silver Mines' score of 0.69 indicating that Fortuna Silver Mines is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Fortuna Silver Mines has a net margin of -5.99% compared to Fortuna Silver Mines' net margin of -7.43%. Centerra Gold's return on equity of 5.03% beat Fortuna Silver Mines' return on equity.
Fortuna Silver Mines has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Centerra Gold. Fortuna Silver Mines is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Centerra Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Fortuna Silver Mines beats Centerra Gold on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
Get Fortuna Silver Mines News Delivered to You Automatically
Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for FSM and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding FSM and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Fortuna Silver Mines Competitors List
Related Companies and Tools
