URE vs. FCU, URC, EFR, DML, CR, SDE, FEC, VLE, SGY, and NOA
Should you be buying Ur-Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ur-Energy include Fission Uranium (FCU), Uranium Royalty (URC), Energy Fuels (EFR), Denison Mines (DML), Crew Energy (CR), Spartan Delta (SDE), Frontera Energy (FEC), Valeura Energy (VLE), Surge Energy (SGY), and North American Construction Group (NOA). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
Ur-Energy (TSE:URE) and Fission Uranium (TSE:FCU) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, valuation and earnings.
Fission Uranium has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Ur-Energy's net margin of -173.40%. Fission Uranium's return on equity of -2.10% beat Ur-Energy's return on equity.
Fission Uranium has a consensus price target of C$1.75, indicating a potential upside of 59.09%. Given Fission Uranium's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Fission Uranium is more favorable than Ur-Energy.
Fission Uranium received 27 more outperform votes than Ur-Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.42% of users gave Fission Uranium an outperform vote while only 60.75% of users gave Ur-Energy an outperform vote.
58.9% of Ur-Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.7% of Fission Uranium shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of Ur-Energy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.2% of Fission Uranium shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Fission Uranium has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Ur-Energy. Fission Uranium is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ur-Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Ur-Energy had 10 more articles in the media than Fission Uranium. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Ur-Energy and 1 mentions for Fission Uranium. Fission Uranium's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Ur-Energy's score of -0.20 indicating that Fission Uranium is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ur-Energy has a beta of 1.15, meaning that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fission Uranium has a beta of 2.86, meaning that its stock price is 186% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Fission Uranium beats Ur-Energy on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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