FSM vs. CGAU, SA, SAND, IAG, CDE, AG, NFGC, GATO, TGB, and DRD
Should you be buying Fortuna Silver Mines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fortuna Silver Mines include Centerra Gold (CGAU), Seabridge Gold (SA), Sandstorm Gold (SAND), IAMGOLD (IAG), Coeur Mining (CDE), First Majestic Silver (AG), New Found Gold (NFGC), Gatos Silver (GATO), Taseko Mines (TGB), and DRDGOLD (DRD). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
Fortuna Silver Mines (NYSE:FSM) and Centerra Gold (NYSE:CGAU) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment and valuation.
Fortuna Silver Mines has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Centerra Gold. Fortuna Silver Mines is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Centerra Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Fortuna Silver Mines has a net margin of -5.99% compared to Centerra Gold's net margin of -7.43%. Fortuna Silver Mines' return on equity of 5.03% beat Centerra Gold's return on equity.
33.8% of Fortuna Silver Mines shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.4% of Centerra Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Fortuna Silver Mines shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Centerra Gold shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Fortuna Silver Mines has a beta of 1.57, meaning that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Centerra Gold has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Centerra Gold had 8 more articles in the media than Fortuna Silver Mines. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Centerra Gold and 5 mentions for Fortuna Silver Mines. Centerra Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Fortuna Silver Mines' score of 0.67 indicating that Centerra Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Fortuna Silver Mines received 320 more outperform votes than Centerra Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.48% of users gave Fortuna Silver Mines an outperform vote while only 23.08% of users gave Centerra Gold an outperform vote.
Fortuna Silver Mines presently has a consensus price target of $7.63, indicating a potential upside of 62.23%. Centerra Gold has a consensus price target of $9.55, indicating a potential upside of 55.66%. Given Fortuna Silver Mines' higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Fortuna Silver Mines is more favorable than Centerra Gold.
Summary
Fortuna Silver Mines beats Centerra Gold on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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