FSM vs. BTG, OR, SAND, CGAU, SILV, EXK, DRD, GATO, SKE, and TGB
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), Sandstorm Gold (SAND), Centerra Gold (CGAU), SilverCrest Metals (SILV), Endeavour Silver (EXK), DRDGOLD (DRD), Gatos Silver (GATO), Skeena Resources (SKE), and Taseko Mines (TGB). These companies are all part of the "precious metals" industry.
Fortuna Silver Mines (NYSE:FSM) and B2Gold (NYSE:BTG) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Fortuna Silver Mines currently has a consensus price target of $6.00, indicating a potential upside of 28.76%. B2Gold has a consensus price target of $3.75, indicating a potential upside of 28.87%. Given B2Gold's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe B2Gold is more favorable than Fortuna Silver Mines.
In the previous week, B2Gold had 11 more articles in the media than Fortuna Silver Mines. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for B2Gold and 5 mentions for Fortuna Silver Mines. B2Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Fortuna Silver Mines' score of 0.72 indicating that B2Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
B2Gold has a net margin of -2.10% compared to Fortuna Silver Mines' net margin of -3.94%. B2Gold's return on equity of 8.05% beat Fortuna Silver Mines' return on equity.
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, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Fortuna Silver Mines has a beta of 1.57, indicating that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, B2Gold has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Fortuna Silver Mines received 336 more outperform votes than B2Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave B2Gold an outperform vote while only 53.47% of users gave Fortuna Silver Mines an outperform vote.
Summary
B2Gold beats Fortuna Silver Mines on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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