FSM vs. BTG, OR, SBSW, EGO, IAG, AG, SAND, SILV, SKE, and CGAU
Should you be buying Fortuna Silver Mines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fortuna Silver Mines include B2Gold (BTG), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Sibanye Stillwater (SBSW), Eldorado Gold (EGO), IAMGOLD (IAG), First Majestic Silver (AG), Sandstorm Gold (SAND), SilverCrest Metals (SILV), Skeena Resources (SKE), and Centerra Gold (CGAU). These companies are all part of the "precious metals" industry.
Fortuna Silver Mines vs. Its Competitors
Fortuna Silver Mines (NYSE:FSM) and B2Gold (NYSE:BTG) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability and earnings.
33.8% of Fortuna Silver Mines shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.4% of B2Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Fortuna Silver Mines shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of B2Gold shares are owned 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.
Fortuna Silver Mines has a net margin of 2.45% compared to B2Gold's net margin of -33.12%. Fortuna Silver Mines' return on equity of 10.08% beat B2Gold's return on equity.
B2Gold has higher revenue and earnings than Fortuna Silver Mines. B2Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fortuna Silver Mines, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Fortuna Silver Mines received 329 more outperform votes than B2Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 52.97% of users gave Fortuna Silver Mines an outperform vote while only 38.46% of users gave B2Gold an outperform vote.
Fortuna Silver Mines presently has a consensus price target of $7.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1.97%. B2Gold has a consensus price target of $4.21, suggesting a potential upside of 17.34%. Given B2Gold's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe B2Gold is more favorable than Fortuna Silver Mines.
Fortuna Silver Mines has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, B2Gold has a beta of 0.44, indicating that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Fortuna Silver Mines had 8 more articles in the media than B2Gold. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Fortuna Silver Mines and 1 mentions for B2Gold. B2Gold's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Fortuna Silver Mines' score of 0.38 indicating that B2Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
B2Gold beats Fortuna Silver Mines on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:FSM) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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