CDE vs. HL, MUX, PAAS, AGI, HMY, BTG, EGO, OR, SBSW, and IAG
Should you be buying Coeur Mining stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Coeur Mining include Hecla Mining (HL), McEwen Mining (MUX), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Alamos Gold (AGI), Harmony Gold Mining (HMY), B2Gold (BTG), Eldorado Gold (EGO), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Sibanye Stillwater (SBSW), and IAMGOLD (IAG). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Coeur Mining (NYSE:CDE) and Hecla Mining (NYSE:HL) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.
Coeur Mining currently has a consensus target price of $5.66, indicating a potential downside of 9.76%. Hecla Mining has a consensus target price of $6.89, indicating a potential upside of 21.89%. Given Hecla Mining's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Hecla Mining is more favorable than Coeur Mining.
Hecla Mining has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Coeur Mining. Hecla Mining is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Coeur Mining, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hecla Mining has a net margin of -12.22% compared to Coeur Mining's net margin of -12.77%. Hecla Mining's return on equity of -0.28% beat Coeur Mining's return on equity.
63.0% of Coeur Mining shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.0% of Hecla Mining shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of Coeur Mining shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Hecla Mining shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Coeur Mining received 38 more outperform votes than Hecla Mining when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.42% of users gave Coeur Mining an outperform vote while only 56.38% of users gave Hecla Mining an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Coeur Mining had 2 more articles in the media than Hecla Mining. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Coeur Mining and 7 mentions for Hecla Mining. Hecla Mining's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Coeur Mining's score of 0.82 indicating that Hecla Mining is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Coeur Mining has a beta of 1.6, meaning that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hecla Mining has a beta of 2.01, meaning that its share price is 101% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Hecla Mining beats Coeur Mining on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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