IE vs. ERO, HBM, TXG, MAG, OLA, NGD, AYA, CG, WDO, and CFP
Should you be buying Ivanhoe Electric stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ivanhoe Electric include Ero Copper (ERO), Hudbay Minerals (HBM), Torex Gold Resources (TXG), MAG Silver (MAG), Orla Mining (OLA), New Gold (NGD), Aya Gold & Silver (AYA), Centerra Gold (CG), Wesdome Gold Mines (WDO), and Canfor (CFP). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Ivanhoe Electric (TSE:IE) and Ero Copper (TSE:ERO) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment and valuation.
Ivanhoe Electric presently has a consensus price target of C$24.00, indicating a potential upside of 86.34%. Ero Copper has a consensus price target of C$26.83, indicating a potential upside of 5.23%. Given Ivanhoe Electric's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Ivanhoe Electric is more favorable than Ero Copper.
Ero Copper has a net margin of 21.71% compared to Ivanhoe Electric's net margin of 0.00%. Ero Copper's return on equity of 13.96% beat Ivanhoe Electric's return on equity.
Ero Copper received 150 more outperform votes than Ivanhoe Electric when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.66% of users gave Ivanhoe Electric an outperform vote while only 55.27% of users gave Ero Copper an outperform vote.
56.3% of Ivanhoe Electric shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.9% of Ero Copper shares are held by institutional investors. 38.1% of Ivanhoe Electric shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.1% of Ero Copper shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Ero Copper has higher revenue and earnings than Ivanhoe Electric. Ivanhoe Electric is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ero Copper, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Ero Copper had 21 more articles in the media than Ivanhoe Electric. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Ero Copper and 1 mentions for Ivanhoe Electric. Ivanhoe Electric's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Ero Copper's score of 0.63 indicating that Ivanhoe Electric is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Ero Copper beats Ivanhoe Electric on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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