MIN vs. FDY, NCU, STGO, GENM, SAU, USA, LN, and XTG
Should you be buying Excelsior Mining stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Excelsior Mining include Faraday Copper (FDY), Nevada Copper (NCU), Steppe Gold (STGO), Generation Mining (GENM), St. Augustine Gold and Copper (SAU), Americas Silver (USA), Loncor Gold (LN), and Xtra-Gold Resources (XTG). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Excelsior Mining (TSE:MIN) and Faraday Copper (TSE:FDY) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, media sentiment, dividends and profitability.
Excelsior Mining received 6 more outperform votes than Faraday Copper when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 83.33% of users gave Faraday Copper an outperform vote while only 68.75% of users gave Excelsior Mining an outperform vote.
37.8% of Excelsior Mining shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.8% of Faraday Copper shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Excelsior Mining shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Faraday Copper shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Faraday Copper's return on equity of -86.27% beat Excelsior Mining's return on equity.
Excelsior Mining has a beta of 2.87, suggesting that its share price is 187% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Faraday Copper has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Faraday Copper has a consensus target price of C$1.30, suggesting a potential upside of 91.18%. Given Faraday Copper's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Faraday Copper is more favorable than Excelsior Mining.
In the previous week, Excelsior Mining had 3 more articles in the media than Faraday Copper. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Excelsior Mining and 3 mentions for Faraday Copper. Faraday Copper's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Excelsior Mining's score of 0.19 indicating that Faraday Copper is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Faraday Copper has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Excelsior Mining. Faraday Copper is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Excelsior Mining, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Faraday Copper beats Excelsior Mining on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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