MUX vs. CDE, ARMN, EXK, GATO, NFGC, PPTA, TGB, DRD, VZLA, and ODV
Should you be buying McEwen Mining stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of McEwen Mining include Coeur Mining (CDE), Aris Mining (ARMN), Endeavour Silver (EXK), Gatos Silver (GATO), New Found Gold (NFGC), Perpetua Resources (PPTA), Taseko Mines (TGB), DRDGOLD (DRD), Vizsla Silver (VZLA), and Osisko Development (ODV). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
Coeur Mining (NYSE:CDE) and McEwen Mining (NYSE:MUX) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, dividends and earnings.
McEwen Mining has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Coeur Mining. Coeur Mining is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than McEwen Mining, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Coeur Mining presently has a consensus price target of $4.21, suggesting a potential downside of 7.15%. McEwen Mining has a consensus price target of $11.92, suggesting a potential upside of 9.13%. Given Coeur Mining's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe McEwen Mining is more favorable than Coeur Mining.
McEwen Mining has a net margin of 32.92% compared to McEwen Mining's net margin of -12.62%. Coeur Mining's return on equity of 19.20% beat McEwen Mining's return on equity.
63.0% of Coeur Mining shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.0% of McEwen Mining shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of Coeur Mining shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 17.4% of McEwen Mining shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Coeur Mining has a beta of 1.82, meaning that its stock price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, McEwen Mining has a beta of 1.53, meaning that its stock price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Coeur Mining had 12 more articles in the media than McEwen Mining. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Coeur Mining and 3 mentions for McEwen Mining. McEwen Mining's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Coeur Mining's score of 0.44 indicating that Coeur Mining is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Coeur Mining received 175 more outperform votes than McEwen Mining when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.89% of users gave McEwen Mining an outperform vote while only 60.39% of users gave Coeur Mining an outperform vote.
Summary
McEwen Mining beats Coeur Mining on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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