SBR vs. USA, KTN, SVE, IPT, GPR, LVN, EXN, MSV, KS, and AUN
Should you be buying Silver Bear Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Silver Bear Resources include Americas Silver (USA), Kootenay Silver (KTN), Silver One Resources (SVE), IMPACT Silver (IPT), Great Panther Mining (GPR), Levon Resources (LVN), Excellon Resources (EXN), Minco Silver (MSV), Klondike Silver (KS), and Aurcana Silver (AUN). These companies are all part of the "silver" industry.
Silver Bear Resources (TSE:SBR) and Americas Silver (TSE:USA) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, community ranking, risk and media sentiment.
Americas Silver has higher revenue and earnings than Silver Bear Resources. Silver Bear Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Americas Silver, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Americas Silver had 21 more articles in the media than Silver Bear Resources. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Americas Silver and 0 mentions for Silver Bear Resources. Americas Silver's average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat Silver Bear Resources' score of -0.80 indicating that Americas Silver is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Americas Silver has a consensus price target of C$0.38, indicating a potential upside of 10.29%. Given Americas Silver's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Americas Silver is more favorable than Silver Bear Resources.
16.4% of Americas Silver shares are owned by institutional investors. 86.7% of Silver Bear Resources shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Americas Silver shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Silver Bear Resources has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Americas Silver's net margin of -45.63%. Silver Bear Resources' return on equity of 0.00% beat Americas Silver's return on equity.
Silver Bear Resources received 38 more outperform votes than Americas Silver when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 82.50% of users gave Silver Bear Resources an outperform vote while only 68.38% of users gave Americas Silver an outperform vote.
Silver Bear Resources pays an annual dividend of C$3.35 per share and has a dividend yield of 6,700.0%. Americas Silver pays an annual dividend of C$0.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 50.0%. Silver Bear Resources pays out -16,750.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Americas Silver pays out -68.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Silver Bear Resources is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Silver Bear Resources has a beta of 0.52, indicating that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Americas Silver has a beta of 1.44, indicating that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Silver Bear Resources beats Americas Silver on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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