SVM vs. MAG, AYA, FR, MDI, ORA, SLS, EDR, KRR, MUX, and IAU
Should you be buying Silvercorp Metals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Silvercorp Metals include MAG Silver (MAG), Aya Gold & Silver (AYA), First Majestic Silver (FR), Major Drilling Group International (MDI), Aura Minerals (ORA), Solaris Resources (SLS), Endeavour Silver (EDR), Karora Resources (KRR), McEwen Mining (MUX), and i-80 Gold (IAU). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
MAG Silver (TSE:MAG) and Silvercorp Metals (TSE:SVM) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings and dividends.
56.4% of MAG Silver shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.6% of Silvercorp Metals shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of MAG Silver shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.4% of Silvercorp Metals 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.
MAG Silver presently has a consensus target price of C$19.88, suggesting a potential upside of 41.26%. Silvercorp Metals has a consensus target price of C$5.31, suggesting a potential upside of 20.46%. Given Silvercorp Metals' higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe MAG Silver is more favorable than Silvercorp Metals.
MAG Silver has a beta of 1, indicating that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Silvercorp Metals has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, MAG Silver had 22 more articles in the media than Silvercorp Metals. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for MAG Silver and 3 mentions for Silvercorp Metals. MAG Silver's average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat Silvercorp Metals' score of 0.36 indicating that Silvercorp Metals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
MAG Silver has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Silvercorp Metals. Silvercorp Metals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MAG Silver, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Silvercorp Metals has a net margin of 15.01% compared to Silvercorp Metals' net margin of 0.00%. Silvercorp Metals' return on equity of 10.71% beat MAG Silver's return on equity.
MAG Silver received 108 more outperform votes than Silvercorp Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.58% of users gave MAG Silver an outperform vote while only 54.04% of users gave Silvercorp Metals an outperform vote.
Summary
MAG Silver beats Silvercorp Metals on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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