FVI vs. EDV, LUG, WFT, BTO, ELD, OR, IMG, EQX, PRU, and ASR
Should you be buying Fortuna Silver Mines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fortuna Silver Mines include Endeavour Mining (EDV), Lundin Gold (LUG), West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) (WFT), B2Gold (BTO), Eldorado Gold (ELD), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), IAMGOLD (IMG), Equinox Gold (EQX), Perseus Mining (PRU), and Alacer Gold (ASR). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Fortuna Silver Mines (TSE:FVI) and Endeavour Mining (TSE:EDV) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Fortuna Silver Mines has a beta of 1.62, indicating that its stock price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Endeavour Mining has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
53.6% of Fortuna Silver Mines shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.9% of Endeavour Mining shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Fortuna Silver Mines shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 19.1% of Endeavour Mining shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Fortuna Silver Mines has a net margin of 0.20% compared to Endeavour Mining's net margin of -8.83%. Fortuna Silver Mines' return on equity of 1.00% beat Endeavour Mining's return on equity.
Fortuna Silver Mines received 236 more outperform votes than Endeavour Mining when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 50.64% of users gave Fortuna Silver Mines an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave Endeavour Mining an outperform vote.
Fortuna Silver Mines presently has a consensus price target of C$7.65, indicating a potential upside of 35.40%. Endeavour Mining has a consensus price target of C$40.00, indicating a potential upside of 45.09%. Given Endeavour Mining's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Endeavour Mining is more favorable than Fortuna Silver Mines.
Fortuna Silver Mines has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Endeavour Mining.
In the previous week, Endeavour Mining had 1 more articles in the media than Fortuna Silver Mines. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Endeavour Mining and 0 mentions for Fortuna Silver Mines. Fortuna Silver Mines' average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Endeavour Mining's score of 0.50 indicating that Fortuna Silver Mines is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Fortuna Silver Mines and Endeavour Mining tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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