URE vs. URC, FCU, LAM, EFR, DML, SDE, ESI, KEC, FEC, and VLE
Should you be buying Ur-Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ur-Energy include Uranium Royalty (URC), Fission Uranium (FCU), Laramide Resources (LAM), Energy Fuels (EFR), Denison Mines (DML), Spartan Delta (SDE), Ensign Energy Services (ESI), Kiwetinohk Energy (KEC), Frontera Energy (FEC), and Valeura Energy (VLE). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
Ur-Energy (TSE:URE) and Uranium Royalty (TSE:URC) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Uranium Royalty has a net margin of 11.00% compared to Ur-Energy's net margin of -173.40%. Uranium Royalty's return on equity of 2.34% beat Ur-Energy's return on equity.
Ur-Energy received 127 more outperform votes than Uranium Royalty when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave Uranium Royalty an outperform vote while only 60.75% of users gave Ur-Energy an outperform vote.
Uranium Royalty has higher revenue and earnings than Ur-Energy. Ur-Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Uranium Royalty, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Ur-Energy had 3 more articles in the media than Uranium Royalty. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Ur-Energy and 1 mentions for Uranium Royalty. Uranium Royalty's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Ur-Energy's score of -0.20 indicating that Uranium Royalty is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
59.2% of Ur-Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.9% of Uranium Royalty shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of Ur-Energy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 17.5% of Uranium Royalty shares are held 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.
Ur-Energy has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Uranium Royalty has a beta of 1.71, indicating that its stock price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Uranium Royalty has a consensus target price of C$6.75, suggesting a potential upside of 110.28%. Given Uranium Royalty's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Uranium Royalty is more favorable than Ur-Energy.
Summary
Uranium Royalty beats Ur-Energy on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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