USA vs. SBR, ARA, SAU, G, VGZ, TSL, SLR, and TMQ
Should you be buying Americas Silver stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Americas Silver include Silver Bear Resources (SBR), Aclara Resources (ARA), St. Augustine Gold and Copper (SAU), Augusta Gold (G), Vista Gold (VGZ), Tree Island Steel (TSL), Solitario Resources (SLR), and Trilogy Metals (TMQ). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Silver Bear Resources (TSE:SBR) and Americas Silver (TSE:USA) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking and media sentiment.
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.
In the previous week, Americas Silver had 10 more articles in the media than Silver Bear Resources. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Americas Silver and 0 mentions for Silver Bear Resources. Silver Bear Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat Americas Silver's score of 0.00 indicating that Americas Silver is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
23.2% of Americas Silver shares are held by institutional investors. 86.7% of Silver Bear Resources shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Americas Silver shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Americas Silver has a consensus price target of C$0.38, indicating a potential upside of 7.14%. Given Silver Bear Resources' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Americas Silver is more favorable than Silver Bear Resources.
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.
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 48.6%. Silver Bear Resources pays out -16,750.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Americas Silver pays out -73.9% 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, suggesting that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Americas Silver has a beta of 1.51, suggesting that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Silver Bear Resources has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Silver Bear Resources' net margin of -42.97%. Americas Silver's return on equity of 0.00% beat Silver Bear Resources' return on equity.
Summary
Silver Bear Resources beats Americas Silver on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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