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$11.36 +0.37 (+3.32%)
Closing price 07/3/2025 03:51 PM Eastern
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MUX vs. AEM, AG, AGI, FSM, PAAS, SA, WPM, EQX, SVM, and MAG

Should you be buying McEwen Mining stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of McEwen Mining include Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM), First Majestic Silver (AG), Alamos Gold (AGI), Fortuna Mining (FSM), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Seabridge Gold (SA), Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), Equinox Gold (EQX), Silvercorp Metals (SVM), and MAG Silver (MAG). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.

McEwen Mining vs. Its Competitors

Agnico Eagle Mines (NYSE:AEM) and McEwen Mining (NYSE:MUX) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings and dividends.

68.3% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.0% of McEwen Mining shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 16.1% of McEwen Mining shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Agnico Eagle Mines presently has a consensus target price of $130.50, indicating a potential upside of 8.64%. McEwen Mining has a consensus target price of $14.33, indicating a potential upside of 26.23%. Given McEwen Mining's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe McEwen Mining is more favorable than Agnico Eagle Mines.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Agnico Eagle Mines
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
4 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.15
McEwen Mining
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.20

Agnico Eagle Mines has higher revenue and earnings than McEwen Mining. McEwen Mining is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Agnico Eagle Mines, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Agnico Eagle Mines$8.92B6.77$1.90B$4.7025.56
McEwen Mining$174.48M3.51-$43.69M-$0.57-19.92

Agnico Eagle Mines has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, McEwen Mining has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Agnico Eagle Mines has a net margin of 26.48% compared to McEwen Mining's net margin of -17.51%. Agnico Eagle Mines' return on equity of 12.09% beat McEwen Mining's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Agnico Eagle Mines26.48% 12.09% 8.38%
McEwen Mining -17.51%-6.03%-4.37%

In the previous week, McEwen Mining had 1 more articles in the media than Agnico Eagle Mines. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for McEwen Mining and 24 mentions for Agnico Eagle Mines. Agnico Eagle Mines' average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat McEwen Mining's score of 0.57 indicating that Agnico Eagle Mines is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Agnico Eagle Mines
16 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
McEwen Mining
4 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
11 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Agnico Eagle Mines beats McEwen Mining on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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MUX vs. The Competition

MetricMcEwen MiningMINING IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$613.84M$5.92B$3.29B$20.72B
Dividend YieldN/A2.06%5.14%3.72%
P/E Ratio-19.9226.2791.9428.07
Price / Sales3.51378.4727,091,750,169,140,000.0038.42
Price / CashN/A26.1923.8922.53
Price / Book1.217.225.894.58
Net Income-$43.69M$278.68M$147.76M$985.54M
7 Day Performance21.51%4.08%2.36%2.79%
1 Month Performance22.70%7.34%4.88%5.46%
1 Year Performance12.31%23.46%25.11%15.06%

McEwen Mining Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MUX
McEwen Mining
2.5592 of 5 stars
$11.36
+3.3%
$14.33
+26.2%
+16.8%$613.84M$174.48M-19.92430Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
AEM
Agnico Eagle Mines
4.4661 of 5 stars
$119.02
+2.5%
$130.50
+9.6%
+76.5%$58.45B$8.29B25.3216,968Positive News
Analyst Revision
AG
First Majestic Silver
1.0262 of 5 stars
$8.27
+3.1%
$8.75
+5.8%
+36.5%$3.89B$560.60M-28.523,818
AGI
Alamos Gold
3.4342 of 5 stars
$26.61
+4.0%
$30.38
+14.1%
+68.0%$10.75B$1.35B42.922,400News Coverage
Positive News
FSM
Fortuna Mining
1.1591 of 5 stars
$6.55
+3.0%
$7.00
+6.9%
+31.3%$1.95B$1.06B12.842,327Positive News
PAAS
Pan American Silver
3.4275 of 5 stars
$28.39
+2.4%
$30.60
+7.8%
+39.0%$10.03B$2.82B32.639,000News Coverage
Positive News
SA
Seabridge Gold
0.0489 of 5 stars
$14.52
+3.1%
N/A+7.4%$1.42BN/A-145.2040
WPM
Wheaton Precious Metals
4.2044 of 5 stars
$89.91
+3.0%
$92.75
+3.2%
+66.3%$39.64B$1.28B66.1140Positive News
Analyst Forecast
EQX
Equinox Gold
4.0808 of 5 stars
$5.75
+1.2%
$35.00
+508.7%
N/A$2.59B$1.51B11.503,692
SVM
Silvercorp Metals
3.4541 of 5 stars
$4.22
+3.7%
$5.68
+34.5%
N/A$887.25M$298.89M14.071,190News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
MAG
MAG Silver
N/A$20.93
+42.7%
N/A+75.9%$2.18BN/A23.7810

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