SA vs. FSM, CGAU, SAND, CDE, IAG, DRD, TGB, AG, NFGC, and GATO
Should you be buying Seabridge Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Seabridge Gold include Fortuna Silver Mines (FSM), Centerra Gold (CGAU), Sandstorm Gold (SAND), Coeur Mining (CDE), IAMGOLD (IAG), DRDGOLD (DRD), Taseko Mines (TGB), First Majestic Silver (AG), 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 better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, dividends and valuation.
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.
Fortuna Silver Mines has a consensus target price of $7.63, indicating a potential upside of 64.16%. Given Fortuna Silver Mines' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Fortuna Silver Mines is more favorable than Seabridge Gold.
Seabridge Gold has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fortuna Silver Mines has a beta of 1.64, meaning that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
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 hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company 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. Fortuna Silver Mines' average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Seabridge Gold's score of 0.02 indicating that Fortuna Silver Mines is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Seabridge Gold has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Fortuna Silver Mines' net margin of -5.99%. Fortuna Silver Mines' return on equity of 5.03% beat Seabridge Gold's return on equity.
Summary
Fortuna Silver Mines beats Seabridge Gold on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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