FSY vs. FVL, SMT, AII, NDM, LGO, ERD, S, NB, WM, and NEXT
Should you be buying Forsys Metals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Forsys Metals include Freegold Ventures (FVL), Sierra Metals (SMT), Almonty Industries (AII), Northern Dynasty Minerals (NDM), Largo (LGO), Erdene Resource Development (ERD), Sherritt International (S), NioCorp Developments (NB), Wallbridge Mining (WM), and NextSource Materials (NEXT). These companies are all part of the "other industrial metals & mining" industry.
Freegold Ventures (TSE:FVL) and Forsys Metals (TSE:FSY) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and profitability.
Freegold Ventures received 7 more outperform votes than Forsys Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.74% of users gave Forsys Metals an outperform vote while only 68.87% of users gave Freegold Ventures an outperform vote.
Freegold Ventures has a beta of 2.36, meaning that its share price is 136% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Forsys Metals has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
5.9% of Freegold Ventures shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.0% of Forsys Metals shares are owned by institutional investors. 29.0% of Freegold Ventures shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 37.1% of Forsys Metals shares are owned 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.
Freegold Ventures is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Forsys Metals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Forsys Metals' return on equity of -3.73% beat Freegold Ventures' return on equity.
In the previous week, Forsys Metals had 1 more articles in the media than Freegold Ventures. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Forsys Metals and 1 mentions for Freegold Ventures. Forsys Metals' average media sentiment score of 0.07 beat Freegold Ventures' score of 0.00 indicating that Freegold Ventures is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Freegold Ventures beats Forsys Metals on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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