SMT vs. AII, FVL, FSY, NDM, LGO, ERD, S, NB, TMQ, and NEXT
Should you be buying Sierra Metals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sierra Metals include Almonty Industries (AII), Freegold Ventures (FVL), Forsys Metals (FSY), Northern Dynasty Minerals (NDM), Largo (LGO), Erdene Resource Development (ERD), Sherritt International (S), NioCorp Developments (NB), Trilogy Metals (TMQ), 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 better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends and earnings.
Sierra Metals has a consensus price target of C$1.10, suggesting a potential upside of 26.44%. Given Almonty Industries' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Sierra Metals is more favorable than Almonty Industries.
Sierra Metals has a net margin of -8.42% compared to Sierra Metals' net margin of -39.26%. Almonty Industries' return on equity of -5.81% beat Sierra Metals' 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.
Almonty Industries has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sierra Metals has a beta of 2.14, suggesting that its share price is 114% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Sierra Metals had 11 more articles in the media than Almonty Industries. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Sierra Metals and 2 mentions for Almonty Industries. Almonty Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.18 beat Sierra Metals' score of -0.40 indicating that Sierra Metals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
23.8% of Sierra Metals shares are owned by institutional investors. 40.0% of Almonty Industries shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Sierra Metals shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock 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 44.75% 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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