UUUU vs. LEU, SLCA, IPI, PLL, HL, UAN, LAAC, MTUS, ASTL, and EU
Should you be buying Energy Fuels stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Energy Fuels include Centrus Energy (LEU), U.S. Silica (SLCA), Intrepid Potash (IPI), Piedmont Lithium (PLL), Hecla Mining (HL), CVR Partners (UAN), Lithium Americas (Argentina) (LAAC), Metallus (MTUS), Algoma Steel Group (ASTL), and enCore Energy (EU). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Centrus Energy (NYSE:LEU) and Energy Fuels (NYSE:UUUU) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Energy Fuels has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Centrus Energy. Centrus Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Energy Fuels, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
50.0% of Centrus Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.2% of Energy Fuels shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.4% of Centrus Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Energy Fuels shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Centrus Energy and Centrus Energy both had 3 articles in the media. Energy Fuels' average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat Centrus Energy's score of 0.60 indicating that Centrus Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Centrus Energy presently has a consensus price target of $64.50, suggesting a potential upside of 43.43%. Energy Fuels has a consensus price target of $9.83, suggesting a potential upside of 76.07%. Given Centrus Energy's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Energy Fuels is more favorable than Centrus Energy.
Centrus Energy has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Energy Fuels has a beta of 1.6, indicating that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Centrus Energy received 2 more outperform votes than Energy Fuels when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Energy Fuels an outperform vote while only 23.08% of users gave Centrus Energy an outperform vote.
Energy Fuels has a net margin of 263.04% compared to Energy Fuels' net margin of 26.36%. Centrus Energy's return on equity of -7.97% beat Energy Fuels' return on equity.
Summary
Energy Fuels beats Centrus Energy on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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