UUUU vs. SLCA, LEU, CMP, IPI, PLL, HL, GSM, PRM, SSRM, and MTUS
Should you be buying Energy Fuels stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Energy Fuels include U.S. Silica (SLCA), Centrus Energy (LEU), Compass Minerals International (CMP), Intrepid Potash (IPI), Piedmont Lithium (PLL), Hecla Mining (HL), Ferroglobe (GSM), Perimeter Solutions (PRM), SSR Mining (SSRM), and Metallus (MTUS). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Energy Fuels (NYSE:UUUU) and U.S. Silica (NYSE:SLCA) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, dividends and risk.
Energy Fuels has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, U.S. Silica has a beta of 2.16, suggesting that its share price is 116% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Energy Fuels currently has a consensus price target of $9.83, indicating a potential upside of 46.55%. U.S. Silica has a consensus price target of $15.25, indicating a potential downside of 1.74%. Given Energy Fuels' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Energy Fuels is more favorable than U.S. Silica.
U.S. Silica has higher revenue and earnings than Energy Fuels. Energy Fuels is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than U.S. Silica, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
48.2% of Energy Fuels shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.8% of U.S. Silica shares are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of Energy Fuels shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of U.S. Silica shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
U.S. Silica received 866 more outperform votes than Energy Fuels when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Energy Fuels an outperform vote while only 74.17% of users gave U.S. Silica an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Energy Fuels had 3 more articles in the media than U.S. Silica. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Energy Fuels and 3 mentions for U.S. Silica. Energy Fuels' average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat U.S. Silica's score of 0.39 indicating that Energy Fuels is being referred to more favorably in the media.
U.S. Silica has a net margin of 8.08% compared to Energy Fuels' net margin of -24.83%. U.S. Silica's return on equity of 13.77% beat Energy Fuels' return on equity.
Summary
U.S. Silica beats Energy Fuels on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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