AII vs. SMT, FVL, FSY, LGO, ERD, S, NB, NDM, WM, and NEXT
Should you be buying Almonty Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Almonty Industries include Sierra Metals (SMT), Freegold Ventures (FVL), Forsys Metals (FSY), Largo (LGO), Erdene Resource Development (ERD), Sherritt International (S), NioCorp Developments (NB), Northern Dynasty Minerals (NDM), Wallbridge Mining (WM), and NextSource Materials (NEXT). These companies are all part of the "other industrial metals & mining" industry.
Almonty Industries (TSE:AII) and Sierra Metals (TSE:SMT) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, dividends and earnings.
Almonty Industries has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sierra Metals has a beta of 2.14, indicating that its share price is 114% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sierra Metals has a net margin of -8.42% compared to Almonty Industries' net margin of -39.26%. Sierra Metals' return on equity of -5.81% beat Almonty Industries' return on equity.
Sierra Metals has higher revenue and earnings than Almonty Industries. Sierra Metals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Almonty Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sierra Metals has a consensus target price of C$1.00, suggesting a potential upside of 20.48%. Given Sierra Metals' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sierra Metals is more favorable than Almonty Industries.
In the previous week, Sierra Metals had 5 more articles in the media than Almonty Industries. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Sierra Metals and 1 mentions for Almonty Industries. Sierra Metals' average media sentiment score of 0.08 beat Almonty Industries' score of 0.00 indicating that Sierra Metals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
23.8% of Sierra Metals shares are held by institutional investors. 40.0% of Almonty Industries shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Sierra Metals shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Sierra Metals received 61 more outperform votes than Almonty Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.27% of users gave Almonty Industries an outperform vote while only 44.90% of users gave Sierra Metals an outperform vote.
Summary
Sierra Metals beats Almonty Industries on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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