MUX vs. CDE, ARMN, EXK, DRD, TGB, PPTA, GATO, NFGC, VZLA, and ODV
Should you be buying McEwen Mining stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of McEwen Mining include Coeur Mining (CDE), Aris Mining (ARMN), Endeavour Silver (EXK), DRDGOLD (DRD), Taseko Mines (TGB), Perpetua Resources (PPTA), Gatos Silver (GATO), New Found Gold (NFGC), Vizsla Silver (VZLA), and Osisko Development (ODV). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
Coeur Mining (NYSE:CDE) and McEwen Mining (NYSE:MUX) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation and community ranking.
McEwen Mining has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Coeur Mining. Coeur Mining is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than McEwen Mining, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
McEwen Mining has a net margin of 32.92% compared to McEwen Mining's net margin of -12.62%. Coeur Mining's return on equity of 19.20% beat McEwen Mining's return on equity.
Coeur Mining has a beta of 1.82, meaning that its share price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, McEwen Mining has a beta of 1.53, meaning that its share price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Coeur Mining had 6 more articles in the media than McEwen Mining. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Coeur Mining and 6 mentions for McEwen Mining. McEwen Mining's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Coeur Mining's score of 0.23 indicating that Coeur Mining is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Coeur Mining currently has a consensus price target of $4.21, suggesting a potential downside of 8.16%. McEwen Mining has a consensus price target of $11.92, suggesting a potential upside of 3.17%. Given Coeur Mining's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe McEwen Mining is more favorable than Coeur Mining.
Coeur Mining received 175 more outperform votes than McEwen Mining when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.89% of users gave McEwen Mining an outperform vote while only 60.39% of users gave Coeur Mining an outperform vote.
63.0% of Coeur Mining shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.0% of McEwen Mining shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of Coeur Mining shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.4% of McEwen Mining shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
McEwen Mining beats Coeur Mining on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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