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 earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
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.
Fortuna Silver Mines currently has a consensus price target of $7.63, suggesting a potential upside of 59.85%. Centerra Gold has a consensus price target of $9.55, suggesting a potential upside of 50.16%. Given Fortuna Silver Mines' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Fortuna Silver Mines is more favorable than Centerra Gold.
In the previous week, Centerra Gold had 10 more articles in the media than Fortuna Silver Mines. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Centerra Gold and 10 mentions for Fortuna Silver Mines. Fortuna Silver Mines' average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Centerra Gold's score of 0.62 indicating that Fortuna Silver Mines is being referred to more favorably in the 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 has a beta of 1.64, meaning that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Centerra Gold has a beta of 0.98, meaning that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
33.8% of Fortuna Silver Mines shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.4% of Centerra Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Fortuna Silver Mines shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Centerra Gold shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Fortuna Silver Mines beats Centerra Gold on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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