MAG vs. AYA, SVM, FR, TXG, IE, NGD, OLA, WDO, CG, and CFP
Should you be buying MAG Silver stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MAG Silver include Aya Gold & Silver (AYA), Silvercorp Metals (SVM), First Majestic Silver (FR), Torex Gold Resources (TXG), Ivanhoe Electric (IE), New Gold (NGD), Orla Mining (OLA), Wesdome Gold Mines (WDO), Centerra Gold (CG), and Canfor (CFP). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Aya Gold & Silver (TSE:AYA) and MAG Silver (TSE:MAG) 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 analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking and profitability.
Aya Gold & Silver has a beta of 1.36, suggesting that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MAG Silver has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Aya Gold & Silver presently has a consensus price target of C$16.24, indicating a potential upside of 9.74%. MAG Silver has a consensus price target of C$19.44, indicating a potential upside of 13.87%. Given Aya Gold & Silver's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe MAG Silver is more favorable than Aya Gold & Silver.
MAG Silver received 183 more outperform votes than Aya Gold & Silver when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.82% of users gave Aya Gold & Silver an outperform vote while only 56.51% of users gave MAG Silver an outperform vote.
MAG Silver has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Aya Gold & Silver. MAG Silver is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aya Gold & Silver, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Aya Gold & Silver had 8 more articles in the media than MAG Silver. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Aya Gold & Silver and 7 mentions for MAG Silver. MAG Silver's average media sentiment score of 0.29 beat Aya Gold & Silver's score of 0.07 indicating that Aya Gold & Silver is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Aya Gold & Silver has a net margin of 12.85% compared to Aya Gold & Silver's net margin of 0.00%. Aya Gold & Silver's return on equity of 10.71% beat MAG Silver's return on equity.
41.2% of Aya Gold & Silver shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.4% of MAG Silver shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.6% of Aya Gold & Silver shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of MAG Silver shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Aya Gold & Silver beats MAG Silver on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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