AAU vs. BVN, LZM, NEXA, ASTLW, SID, FMSTW, HGASW, HLP, HYMCW, and HYMCL
Should you be buying Almaden Minerals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Almaden Minerals include Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. (BVN), Lifezone Metals (LZM), Nexa Resources (NEXA), Algoma Steel Group (ASTLW), Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (SID), Foremost Lithium Resource & Technology (FMSTW), Global Gas (HGASW), Hongli Group (HLP), Hycroft Mining (HYMCW), and Hycroft Mining (HYMCL). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. (NYSE:BVN) and Almaden Minerals (NYSE:AAU) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. has a net margin of 2.41% compared to Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.'s net margin of 0.00%. Almaden Minerals' return on equity of 0.84% beat Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.'s return on equity.
Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. has higher revenue and earnings than Almaden Minerals. Almaden Minerals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A., indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Almaden Minerals has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. presently has a consensus price target of $11.65, suggesting a potential downside of 31.19%. Given Almaden Minerals' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. is more favorable than Almaden Minerals.
In the previous week, Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. had 1 more articles in the media than Almaden Minerals. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. and 1 mentions for Almaden Minerals. Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.'s average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Almaden Minerals' score of -0.33 indicating that Almaden Minerals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. received 319 more outperform votes than Almaden Minerals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.42% of users gave Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Almaden Minerals an outperform vote.
Summary
Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. beats Almaden Minerals on 11 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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