URE vs. FCU, URC, LAM, EFR, DML, CR, SGY, SDE, NOA, and FEC
Should you be buying Ur-Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ur-Energy include Fission Uranium (FCU), Uranium Royalty (URC), Laramide Resources (LAM), Energy Fuels (EFR), Denison Mines (DML), Crew Energy (CR), Surge Energy (SGY), Spartan Delta (SDE), North American Construction Group (NOA), and Frontera Energy (FEC). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
Ur-Energy (TSE:URE) and Fission Uranium (TSE:FCU) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, dividends, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Ur-Energy has a beta of 1.15, meaning that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fission Uranium has a beta of 2.86, meaning that its share price is 186% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Fission Uranium has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Ur-Energy. Fission Uranium is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ur-Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Fission Uranium has a consensus target price of C$1.75, suggesting a potential upside of 50.86%. Given Fission Uranium's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Fission Uranium is more favorable than Ur-Energy.
Fission Uranium received 27 more outperform votes than Ur-Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.42% of users gave Fission Uranium an outperform vote while only 60.75% of users gave Ur-Energy an outperform vote.
59.4% of Ur-Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.9% of Fission Uranium shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of Ur-Energy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.2% of Fission Uranium shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Fission Uranium's return on equity of -2.10% beat Ur-Energy's return on equity.
In the previous week, Ur-Energy had 11 more articles in the media than Fission Uranium. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Ur-Energy and 1 mentions for Fission Uranium. Fission Uranium's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Ur-Energy's score of 0.12 indicating that Fission Uranium is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Fission Uranium beats Ur-Energy on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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