FSY vs. SMT, FVL, AII, ERD, LGO, NDM, S, WM, NEXT, and NB
Should you be buying Forsys Metals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Forsys Metals include Sierra Metals (SMT), Freegold Ventures (FVL), Almonty Industries (AII), Erdene Resource Development (ERD), Largo (LGO), Northern Dynasty Minerals (NDM), Sherritt International (S), Wallbridge Mining (WM), NextSource Materials (NEXT), and NioCorp Developments (NB). These companies are all part of the "other industrial metals & mining" industry.
Sierra Metals (TSE:SMT) and Forsys Metals (TSE:FSY) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings and dividends.
Sierra Metals has a beta of 2.15, indicating that its stock price is 115% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Forsys Metals has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Forsys Metals has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Forsys Metals' net margin of -8.42%. Forsys Metals' return on equity of -5.81% beat Sierra Metals' return on equity.
23.7% of Sierra Metals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.0% of Forsys Metals shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of Sierra Metals shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 37.1% of Forsys Metals shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Forsys Metals has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Sierra Metals. Forsys Metals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sierra Metals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sierra Metals received 66 more outperform votes than Forsys Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.74% of users gave Forsys Metals an outperform vote while only 44.90% of users gave Sierra Metals an outperform vote.
Sierra Metals presently has a consensus target price of C$1.00, suggesting a potential upside of 20.48%. Given Forsys Metals' higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Sierra Metals is more favorable than Forsys Metals.
In the previous week, Sierra Metals had 4 more articles in the media than Forsys Metals. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Sierra Metals and 0 mentions for Forsys Metals. Forsys Metals' average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Sierra Metals' score of 0.00 indicating that Sierra Metals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Sierra Metals beats Forsys Metals on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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