SSR Mining (SSRM) Competitors

Air Canada (TSE:AC) and SSR Mining (TSE:SSRM) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, earnings, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership and media sentiment.

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of AC or SSRM?

15.5% of Air Canada shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.7% of SSR Mining shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Air Canada shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of SSR Mining shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts rate AC or SSRM?

Air Canada presently has a consensus price target of C$23.63, indicating a potential upside of 67.67%. SSR Mining has a consensus price target of C$15.50, indicating a potential upside of 11.19%. Given Air Canada's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Air Canada is more favorable than SSR Mining.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Air Canada	1 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	10 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.79
SSR Mining	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Is AC or SSRM a better dividend stock?

Air Canada pays an annual dividend of C$0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. SSR Mining pays an annual dividend of C$0.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Air Canada pays out 2.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SSR Mining pays out -11.2% 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.

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, AC or SSRM?

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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Air Canada	C$21.95B	0.23	C$2.54B	C$7.10	1.98
SSR Mining	C$774.50M	2.57	-C$341.77M	-C$3.40	-4.09

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in AC or SSRM?

Air Canada received 781 more outperform votes than SSR Mining when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.24% of users gave Air Canada an outperform vote while only 67.09% of users gave SSR Mining an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Air Canada	Outperform Votes 991 71.24%	Underperform Votes 400 28.76%
SSR Mining	Outperform Votes 210 67.09%	Underperform Votes 103 32.91%

Which has more risk and volatility, AC or SSRM?

Air Canada has a beta of 2.39, indicating that its stock price is 139% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SSR Mining has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media prefer AC or SSRM?

In the previous week, Air Canada had 6 more articles in the media than SSR Mining. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Air Canada and 0 mentions for SSR Mining. SSR Mining's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Air Canada's score of 0.35 indicating that SSR Mining is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Air Canada	Neutral
SSR Mining	Positive

Is AC or SSRM more profitable?

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.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Air Canada	11.57%	177.01%	4.12%
SSR Mining	-44.13%	-15.34%	-1.42%

Summary

Air Canada beats SSR Mining on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.