FSM vs. SA, CGAU, SAND, CDE, IAG, AG, DRD, TGB, NFGC, and GATO
Should you be buying Fortuna Silver Mines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fortuna Silver Mines include Seabridge Gold (SA), Centerra Gold (CGAU), Sandstorm Gold (SAND), Coeur Mining (CDE), IAMGOLD (IAG), First Majestic Silver (AG), DRDGOLD (DRD), Taseko Mines (TGB), New Found Gold (NFGC), and Gatos Silver (GATO). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
Seabridge Gold (NYSE:SA) and Fortuna Silver Mines (NYSE:FSM) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, earnings, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Seabridge Gold has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Seabridge Gold's net margin of -5.99%. Seabridge Gold's return on equity of 5.03% beat Fortuna Silver Mines' return on equity.
Fortuna Silver Mines received 96 more outperform votes than Seabridge Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.36% of users gave Seabridge Gold an outperform vote while only 53.48% of users gave Fortuna Silver Mines an outperform vote.
Seabridge Gold has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fortuna Silver Mines has a beta of 1.64, suggesting that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Fortuna Silver Mines has a consensus price target of $7.63, indicating a potential upside of 64.33%. Given Seabridge Gold's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Fortuna Silver Mines is more favorable than Seabridge Gold.
Seabridge Gold has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Fortuna Silver Mines. Seabridge Gold 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.
34.8% of Seabridge Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.8% of Fortuna Silver Mines shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.8% of Seabridge Gold shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Fortuna Silver Mines 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.
In the previous week, Fortuna Silver Mines had 5 more articles in the media than Seabridge Gold. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Fortuna Silver Mines and 3 mentions for Seabridge Gold. Seabridge Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Fortuna Silver Mines' score of 0.02 indicating that Fortuna Silver Mines is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Fortuna Silver Mines beats Seabridge Gold on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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