FDY vs. NCU, MIN, ARG, III, ERD, FF, S, LGO, GDL, and NB
Should you be buying Faraday Copper stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Faraday Copper include Nevada Copper (NCU), Excelsior Mining (MIN), Amerigo Resources (ARG), Imperial Metals (III), Erdene Resource Development (ERD), First Mining Gold (FF), Sherritt International (S), Largo (LGO), Goodfellow (GDL), and NioCorp Developments (NB). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Faraday Copper (TSE:FDY) and Nevada Copper (TSE:NCU) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, risk, media sentiment and profitability.
Faraday Copper has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Nevada Copper. Faraday Copper is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nevada Copper, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Faraday Copper has a beta of 1.69, suggesting that its stock price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nevada Copper has a beta of 2.76, suggesting that its stock price is 176% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Nevada Copper received 336 more outperform votes than Faraday Copper when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 83.33% of users gave Faraday Copper an outperform vote while only 78.03% of users gave Nevada Copper an outperform vote.
Faraday Copper currently has a consensus target price of C$1.30, indicating a potential upside of 62.50%. Nevada Copper has a consensus target price of C$0.30, indicating a potential upside of 200.00%. Given Nevada Copper's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Nevada Copper is more favorable than Faraday Copper.
In the previous week, Faraday Copper had 1 more articles in the media than Nevada Copper. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Faraday Copper and 2 mentions for Nevada Copper. Nevada Copper's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Faraday Copper's score of 0.32 indicating that Nevada Copper is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
15.9% of Faraday Copper shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.1% of Nevada Copper shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Faraday Copper shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 52.2% of Nevada Copper 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.
Nevada Copper's return on equity of -27.57% beat Faraday Copper's return on equity.
Summary
Nevada Copper beats Faraday Copper on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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