FVI vs. DPM, CG, KNT, OGC, SEA, OLA, SSL, TXG, NGD, and WDO
Should you be buying Fortuna Silver Mines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fortuna Silver Mines include Dundee Precious Metals (DPM), Centerra Gold (CG), K92 Mining (KNT), OceanaGold (OGC), Seabridge Gold (SEA), Orla Mining (OLA), Sandstorm Gold (SSL), Torex Gold Resources (TXG), New Gold (NGD), and Wesdome Gold Mines (WDO). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Fortuna Silver Mines (TSE:FVI) and Dundee Precious Metals (TSE:DPM) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, community ranking, earnings, valuation and media sentiment.
Fortuna Silver Mines has a beta of 1.66, indicating that its stock price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dundee Precious Metals has a beta of 1.2, indicating that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
44.6% of Fortuna Silver Mines shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.9% of Dundee Precious Metals shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Fortuna Silver Mines shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Dundee Precious Metals shares are held by 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.
Dundee Precious Metals received 91 more outperform votes than Fortuna Silver Mines when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.57% of users gave Dundee Precious Metals an outperform vote while only 51.19% of users gave Fortuna Silver Mines an outperform vote.
Dundee Precious Metals has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Fortuna Silver Mines. Fortuna Silver Mines is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dundee Precious Metals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Dundee Precious Metals had 2 more articles in the media than Fortuna Silver Mines. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Dundee Precious Metals and 5 mentions for Fortuna Silver Mines. Dundee Precious Metals' average media sentiment score of 1.42 beat Fortuna Silver Mines' score of 1.06 indicating that Dundee Precious Metals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Fortuna Silver Mines presently has a consensus price target of C$6.58, suggesting a potential upside of 3.51%. Dundee Precious Metals has a consensus price target of C$13.69, suggesting a potential upside of 26.74%. Given Dundee Precious Metals' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Dundee Precious Metals is more favorable than Fortuna Silver Mines.
Dundee Precious Metals has a net margin of 37.10% compared to Fortuna Silver Mines' net margin of -6.03%. Dundee Precious Metals' return on equity of 17.22% beat Fortuna Silver Mines' return on equity.
Summary
Dundee Precious Metals beats Fortuna Silver Mines on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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