SSRM vs. AC, GLXY, PSA, GEI, GC, CG, LB, CBL, WELL, and AGF.B
Should you be buying SSR Mining stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SSR Mining include Air Canada (AC), Galaxy Digital (GLXY), Purpose High Interest Savings Fund (PSA), Gibson Energy (GEI), Great Canadian Gaming (GC), Centerra Gold (CG), Laurentian Bank of Canada (LB), Callidus Capital (CBL), WELL Health Technologies (WELL), and AGF Management (AGF.B). These companies are all part of the "trading" industry.
SSR Mining vs. Its Competitors
SSR Mining (TSE:SSRM) and Air Canada (TSE:AC) are both mid-cap trading companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, dividends and risk.
74.7% of SSR Mining shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.5% of Air Canada shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of SSR Mining shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Air Canada shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Air Canada had 5 more articles in the media than SSR Mining. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Air Canada and 1 mentions for SSR Mining. Air Canada's average media sentiment score of 0.15 beat SSR Mining's score of 0.00 indicating that Air Canada is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SSR Mining has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Air Canada has a beta of 2.39, indicating that its stock price is 139% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SSR Mining currently has a consensus target price of C$15.50, suggesting a potential downside of 13.31%. Air Canada has a consensus target price of C$24.22, suggesting a potential upside of 13.17%. Given Air Canada's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Air Canada is more favorable than SSR Mining.
Air Canada has a net margin of 11.57% compared to SSR Mining's net margin of -44.13%. Air Canada's return on equity of 177.01% beat SSR Mining's return on equity.
SSR Mining pays an annual dividend of C$0.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Air Canada pays an annual dividend of C$0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. SSR Mining pays out -11.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Air Canada pays out 2.8% 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. SSR Mining is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Air Canada has higher revenue and earnings than SSR Mining. SSR Mining is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Air Canada, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Air Canada beats SSR Mining on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of TSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (TSE:SSRM) was last updated on 7/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
