FSM vs. CDE, NFGC, SA, IAG, EXK, GATO, TGB, MUX, PPTA, and ODV
Should you be buying Fortuna Silver Mines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fortuna Silver Mines include Coeur Mining (CDE), New Found Gold (NFGC), Seabridge Gold (SA), IAMGOLD (IAG), Endeavour Silver (EXK), Gatos Silver (GATO), Taseko Mines (TGB), McEwen Mining (MUX), Perpetua Resources (PPTA), and Osisko Development (ODV). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
Fortuna Silver Mines (NYSE:FSM) and Coeur Mining (NYSE:CDE) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Fortuna Silver Mines currently has a consensus price target of $9.08, indicating a potential upside of 233.33%. Coeur Mining has a consensus price target of $3.81, indicating a potential upside of 71.35%. Given Fortuna Silver Mines' higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Fortuna Silver Mines is more favorable than Coeur Mining.
Coeur Mining received 156 more outperform votes than Fortuna Silver Mines when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.90% of users gave Coeur Mining an outperform vote while only 53.88% of users gave Fortuna Silver Mines an outperform vote.
Coeur Mining has higher revenue and earnings than Fortuna Silver Mines. Coeur Mining 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 has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coeur Mining has a beta of 1.61, indicating that its share price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Coeur Mining has a net margin of -8.64% compared to Fortuna Silver Mines' net margin of -22.51%. Fortuna Silver Mines' return on equity of 1.92% beat Coeur Mining's return on equity.
31.2% of Fortuna Silver Mines shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.6% of Coeur Mining shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Fortuna Silver Mines shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Coeur Mining shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Coeur Mining had 6 more articles in the media than Fortuna Silver Mines. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Coeur Mining and 0 mentions for Fortuna Silver Mines. Coeur Mining's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Fortuna Silver Mines' score of 0.30 indicating that Coeur Mining is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Coeur Mining beats Fortuna Silver Mines on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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