CDE vs. MUX, IAG, SAND, AG, FSM, CGAU, TGB, NFGC, DRD, and GATO
Should you be buying Coeur Mining stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Coeur Mining include McEwen Mining (MUX), IAMGOLD (IAG), Sandstorm Gold (SAND), First Majestic Silver (AG), Fortuna Silver Mines (FSM), Centerra Gold (CGAU), Taseko Mines (TGB), New Found Gold (NFGC), DRDGOLD (DRD), and Gatos Silver (GATO). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
Coeur Mining (NYSE:CDE) and McEwen Mining (NYSE:MUX) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, earnings and media sentiment.
Coeur Mining currently has a consensus target price of $4.36, suggesting a potential downside of 10.60%. McEwen Mining has a consensus target price of $11.92, suggesting a potential upside of 1.33%. Given McEwen Mining's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe McEwen Mining is more favorable than Coeur Mining.
63.0% of Coeur Mining shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.0% of McEwen Mining shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of Coeur Mining shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 17.4% of McEwen Mining shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Coeur Mining has a beta of 1.77, meaning that its stock price is 77% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, McEwen Mining has a beta of 1.48, meaning that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Coeur Mining had 13 more articles in the media than McEwen Mining. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Coeur Mining and 3 mentions for McEwen Mining. McEwen Mining's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Coeur Mining's score of 0.39 indicating that McEwen Mining is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
McEwen Mining has a net margin of 32.92% compared to Coeur Mining's net margin of -12.77%. McEwen Mining's return on equity of 19.20% beat Coeur Mining's return on equity.
McEwen Mining has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Coeur Mining. Coeur Mining is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than McEwen Mining, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Coeur Mining received 176 more outperform votes than McEwen Mining when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.89% of users gave McEwen Mining an outperform vote while only 60.44% of users gave Coeur Mining an outperform vote.
Summary
McEwen Mining beats Coeur Mining on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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