NDM vs. FSY, FVL, SMT, AII, LGO, ERD, FAR, S, NB, and WM
Should you be buying Northern Dynasty Minerals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Northern Dynasty Minerals include Forsys Metals (FSY), Freegold Ventures (FVL), Sierra Metals (SMT), Almonty Industries (AII), Largo (LGO), Erdene Resource Development (ERD), Foraco International (FAR), Sherritt International (S), NioCorp Developments (NB), and Wallbridge Mining (WM). These companies are all part of the "other industrial metals & mining" industry.
Forsys Metals (TSE:FSY) and Northern Dynasty Minerals (TSE:NDM) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, media sentiment, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Forsys Metals has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Northern Dynasty Minerals has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Northern Dynasty Minerals received 279 more outperform votes than Forsys Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.74% of users gave Forsys Metals an outperform vote while only 65.09% of users gave Northern Dynasty Minerals an outperform vote.
Forsys Metals' return on equity of -15.79% beat Northern Dynasty Minerals' return on equity.
In the previous week, Forsys Metals had 2 more articles in the media than Northern Dynasty Minerals. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Forsys Metals and 0 mentions for Northern Dynasty Minerals. Northern Dynasty Minerals' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Forsys Metals'average media sentiment score.
30.0% of Forsys Metals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.2% of Northern Dynasty Minerals shares are held by institutional investors. 37.1% of Forsys Metals shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Northern Dynasty Minerals shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Forsys Metals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Northern Dynasty Minerals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Forsys Metals beats Northern Dynasty Minerals on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
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