BKI vs. FT, and OGD
Should you be buying Black Iron stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Black Iron include Fortune Minerals (FT), and Orbit Garant Drilling (OGD). These companies are all part of the "other industrial metals & mining" industry.
Fortune Minerals (TSE:FT) and Black Iron (TSE:BKI) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
Black Iron has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Fortune Minerals. Black Iron is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fortune Minerals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Black Iron's return on equity of -65.96% beat Fortune Minerals' return on equity.
Fortune Minerals received 98 more outperform votes than Black Iron when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.20% of users gave Fortune Minerals an outperform vote while only 66.00% of users gave Black Iron an outperform vote.
14.9% of Black Iron shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.4% of Fortune Minerals shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Black Iron shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Black Iron had 3 more articles in the media than Fortune Minerals. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Black Iron and 0 mentions for Fortune Minerals. Fortune Minerals' average media sentiment score of 0.13 beat Black Iron's score of 0.00 indicating that Black Iron is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Fortune Minerals has a beta of 0.4, meaning that its stock price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Black Iron has a beta of 1.63, meaning that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Fortune Minerals beats Black Iron on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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