S vs. ERD, NB, LGO, AII, NEXT, TMQ, GEO, FURY, WM, and SMT
Should you be buying Sherritt International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sherritt International include Erdene Resource Development (ERD), NioCorp Developments (NB), Largo (LGO), Almonty Industries (AII), NextSource Materials (NEXT), Trilogy Metals (TMQ), Geodrill (GEO), Fury Gold Mines (FURY), Wallbridge Mining (WM), and Sierra Metals (SMT). These companies are all part of the "other industrial metals & mining" industry.
Erdene Resource Development (TSE:ERD) and Sherritt International (TSE:S) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, profitability, dividends, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Erdene Resource Development had 1 more articles in the media than Sherritt International. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Erdene Resource Development and 1 mentions for Sherritt International. Erdene Resource Development's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Sherritt International's score of -0.42 indicating that Sherritt International is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Erdene Resource Development has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Erdene Resource Development's net margin of -28.93%. Erdene Resource Development's return on equity of -9.83% beat Sherritt International's return on equity.
Sherritt International has a consensus target price of C$0.53, indicating a potential upside of 66.67%. Given Erdene Resource Development's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Sherritt International is more favorable than Erdene Resource Development.
6.2% of Erdene Resource Development shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.5% of Sherritt International shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.2% of Erdene Resource Development shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Sherritt International shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Sherritt International received 311 more outperform votes than Erdene Resource Development when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.29% of users gave Erdene Resource Development an outperform vote while only 62.54% of users gave Sherritt International an outperform vote.
Erdene Resource Development has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Sherritt International. Erdene Resource Development is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sherritt International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Erdene Resource Development has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sherritt International has a beta of 1.66, suggesting that its stock price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Sherritt International beats Erdene Resource Development on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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