MUX vs. CDE, ARMN, EXK, DRD, NFGC, GATO, TGB, VZLA, PPTA, and ODV
Should you be buying McEwen Mining stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of McEwen Mining include Coeur Mining (CDE), Aris Mining (ARMN), Endeavour Silver (EXK), DRDGOLD (DRD), New Found Gold (NFGC), Gatos Silver (GATO), Taseko Mines (TGB), Vizsla Silver (VZLA), Perpetua Resources (PPTA), and Osisko Development (ODV). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
Coeur Mining (NYSE:CDE) and McEwen Mining (NYSE:MUX) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, risk, earnings, valuation and institutional ownership.
McEwen Mining has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Coeur Mining. Coeur Mining is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than McEwen Mining, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
McEwen Mining has a net margin of 44.83% compared to McEwen Mining's net margin of -12.77%. Coeur Mining's return on equity of 16.46% beat McEwen Mining's return on equity.
Coeur Mining presently has a consensus target price of $4.36, indicating a potential downside of 25.81%. McEwen Mining has a consensus target price of $13.50, indicating a potential upside of 19.15%. Given Coeur Mining's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe McEwen Mining is more favorable than Coeur Mining.
Coeur Mining has a beta of 1.77, indicating that its share price is 77% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, McEwen Mining has a beta of 1.48, indicating that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
63.0% of Coeur Mining shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.0% of McEwen Mining shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of Coeur Mining shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 17.4% of McEwen Mining shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, McEwen Mining had 9 more articles in the media than Coeur Mining. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for McEwen Mining and 6 mentions for Coeur Mining. Coeur Mining's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat McEwen Mining's score of 0.49 indicating that McEwen Mining is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Coeur Mining received 174 more outperform votes than McEwen Mining when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.04% of users gave McEwen Mining an outperform vote while only 60.44% of users gave Coeur Mining an outperform vote.
Summary
McEwen Mining beats Coeur Mining on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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