FSM vs. AGI, HMY, BTG, SBSW, EGO, OR, CDE, IAG, AG, and SAND
Should you be buying Fortuna Silver Mines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fortuna Silver Mines include Alamos Gold (AGI), Harmony Gold Mining (HMY), B2Gold (BTG), Sibanye Stillwater (SBSW), Eldorado Gold (EGO), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Coeur Mining (CDE), IAMGOLD (IAG), First Majestic Silver (AG), and Sandstorm Gold (SAND). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
Fortuna Silver Mines (NYSE:FSM) and Alamos Gold (NYSE:AGI) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership and risk.
33.8% of Fortuna Silver Mines shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.3% of Alamos Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Fortuna Silver Mines shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Alamos Gold shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Fortuna Silver Mines currently has a consensus target price of $8.25, suggesting a potential upside of 32.21%. Alamos Gold has a consensus target price of $18.15, suggesting a potential upside of 8.62%. Given Fortuna Silver Mines' higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Fortuna Silver Mines is more favorable than Alamos Gold.
In the previous week, Alamos Gold had 1 more articles in the media than Fortuna Silver Mines. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Alamos Gold and 7 mentions for Fortuna Silver Mines. Fortuna Silver Mines' average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Alamos Gold's score of 0.61 indicating that Fortuna Silver Mines is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Alamos Gold has a net margin of 19.41% compared to Fortuna Silver Mines' net margin of -3.94%. Alamos Gold's return on equity of 7.38% beat Fortuna Silver Mines' return on equity.
Alamos Gold has higher revenue and earnings than Fortuna Silver Mines. Fortuna Silver Mines is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alamos Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Fortuna Silver Mines has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alamos Gold has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alamos Gold received 64 more outperform votes than Fortuna Silver Mines when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.97% of users gave Alamos Gold an outperform vote while only 53.47% of users gave Fortuna Silver Mines an outperform vote.
Summary
Alamos Gold beats Fortuna Silver Mines on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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