FRES vs. EDV, JMAT, MNDI, CRDA, CEY, BREE, VSVS, VCT, S32, and THS
Should you be buying Fresnillo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fresnillo include Endeavour Mining (EDV), Johnson Matthey (JMAT), Mondi (MNDI), Croda International (CRDA), Centamin (CEY), Breedon Group (BREE), Vesuvius (VSVS), Victrex (VCT), South32 (S32), and Tharisa (THS). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Endeavour Mining (LON:EDV) and Fresnillo (LON:FRES) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership and profitability.
Endeavour Mining has a net margin of 10.88% compared to Endeavour Mining's net margin of 8.65%. Fresnillo's return on equity of 7.99% beat Endeavour Mining's return on equity.
Endeavour Mining pays an annual dividend of GBX 65 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Fresnillo pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Endeavour Mining pays out -92,857.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Fresnillo pays out 1,600.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Endeavour Mining is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Endeavour Mining currently has a consensus target price of GBX 2,000, suggesting a potential upside of 17.30%. Fresnillo has a consensus target price of GBX 571.67, suggesting a potential downside of 2.11%. Given Fresnillo's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Endeavour Mining is more favorable than Fresnillo.
59.4% of Endeavour Mining shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.3% of Fresnillo shares are held by institutional investors. 18.7% of Endeavour Mining shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 75.0% of Fresnillo shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Fresnillo had 16 more articles in the media than Endeavour Mining. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Fresnillo and 1 mentions for Endeavour Mining. Endeavour Mining's average media sentiment score of 0.12 beat Fresnillo's score of 0.00 indicating that Fresnillo is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Fresnillo has higher revenue and earnings than Endeavour Mining. Endeavour Mining is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fresnillo, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Endeavour Mining has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fresnillo has a beta of 0.26, suggesting that its stock price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Fresnillo received 437 more outperform votes than Endeavour Mining when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Endeavour Mining an outperform vote while only 53.13% of users gave Fresnillo an outperform vote.
Summary
Endeavour Mining beats Fresnillo on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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