ASND vs. SAM, SCY, and SVB
Should you be buying Ascendant Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ascendant Resources include Starcore International Mines (SAM), Scandium International Mining (SCY), and Silver Bull Resources (SVB). These companies are all part of the "other industrial metals & mining" industry.
Ascendant Resources (TSE:ASND) and Starcore International Mines (TSE:SAM) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Ascendant Resources currently has a consensus target price of C$0.30, suggesting a potential upside of 445.45%. Given Ascendant Resources' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Ascendant Resources is more favorable than Starcore International Mines.
Ascendant Resources has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Starcore International Mines' net margin of -15.93%. Ascendant Resources' return on equity of 230.96% beat Starcore International Mines' return on equity.
Ascendant Resources received 18 more outperform votes than Starcore International Mines when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.52% of users gave Starcore International Mines an outperform vote while only 63.09% of users gave Ascendant Resources an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Starcore International Mines had 2 more articles in the media than Ascendant Resources. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Starcore International Mines and 1 mentions for Ascendant Resources. Starcore International Mines' average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat Ascendant Resources' score of -0.27 indicating that Starcore International Mines is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Starcore International Mines has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Ascendant Resources. Starcore International Mines is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ascendant Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
15.1% of Ascendant Resources shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Ascendant Resources shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.8% of Starcore International Mines shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ascendant Resources has a beta of 1.41, meaning that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Starcore International Mines has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Ascendant Resources and Starcore International Mines tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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