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 stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.
Fission Uranium has a consensus price target of C$1.75, indicating a potential upside of 50.86%. Given Fission Uranium's higher probable 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.
In the previous week, Ur-Energy had 5 more articles in the media than Fission Uranium. MarketBeat recorded 6 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 -0.23 indicating that Fission Uranium is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ur-Energy has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fission Uranium has a beta of 2.83, indicating that its share price is 183% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Fission Uranium's return on equity of -2.10% beat Ur-Energy's return on equity.
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.
59.4% of Ur-Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.3% 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 hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Fission Uranium beats Ur-Energy on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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