FVI vs. OGC, SSL, DPM, CEE, CG, KNT, SEA, TXG, NGD, and CXB
Should you be buying Fortuna Silver Mines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fortuna Silver Mines include OceanaGold (OGC), Sandstorm Gold (SSL), Dundee Precious Metals (DPM), Centamin (CEE), Centerra Gold (CG), K92 Mining (KNT), Seabridge Gold (SEA), Torex Gold Resources (TXG), New Gold (NGD), and Calibre Mining (CXB). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Fortuna Silver Mines (TSE:FVI) and OceanaGold (TSE:OGC) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, valuation, dividends, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Fortuna Silver Mines has a beta of 1.6, meaning that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OceanaGold has a beta of 1.61, meaning that its share price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500.
46.0% of Fortuna Silver Mines shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.9% of OceanaGold shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Fortuna Silver Mines shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of OceanaGold shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
OceanaGold has higher revenue and earnings than Fortuna Silver Mines. Fortuna Silver Mines is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than OceanaGold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Fortuna Silver Mines had 6 more articles in the media than OceanaGold. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Fortuna Silver Mines and 1 mentions for OceanaGold. OceanaGold's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Fortuna Silver Mines' score of 0.37 indicating that OceanaGold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Fortuna Silver Mines currently has a consensus price target of C$7.30, suggesting a potential downside of 8.06%. OceanaGold has a consensus price target of C$4.17, suggesting a potential upside of 27.42%. Given OceanaGold's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe OceanaGold is more favorable than Fortuna Silver Mines.
OceanaGold has a net margin of 3.69% compared to Fortuna Silver Mines' net margin of -3.98%. OceanaGold's return on equity of 2.29% beat Fortuna Silver Mines' return on equity.
Fortuna Silver Mines received 228 more outperform votes than OceanaGold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 50.97% of users gave Fortuna Silver Mines an outperform vote while only 45.00% of users gave OceanaGold an outperform vote.
Summary
OceanaGold beats Fortuna Silver Mines on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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