DML vs. EFR, FCU, URE, NXE, PXT, IPCO, VET, NVA, ATH, and FRU
Should you be buying Denison Mines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Denison Mines include Energy Fuels (EFR), Fission Uranium (FCU), Ur-Energy (URE), NexGen Energy (NXE), Parex Resources (PXT), International Petroleum (IPCO), Vermilion Energy (VET), NuVista Energy (NVA), Athabasca Oil (ATH), and Freehold Royalties (FRU). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
Energy Fuels (TSE:EFR) and Denison Mines (TSE:DML) are both energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Denison Mines has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Energy Fuels. Energy Fuels is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Denison Mines, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Denison Mines received 283 more outperform votes than Energy Fuels when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 76.56% of users gave Energy Fuels an outperform vote while only 63.74% of users gave Denison Mines an outperform vote.
56.0% of Energy Fuels shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.4% of Denison Mines shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of Energy Fuels shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Denison Mines shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Energy Fuels presently has a consensus target price of C$15.00, suggesting a potential upside of 64.47%. Denison Mines has a consensus target price of C$3.14, suggesting a potential upside of 2.61%. Given Denison Mines' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Energy Fuels is more favorable than Denison Mines.
Energy Fuels has a beta of 1.58, suggesting that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Denison Mines has a beta of 1.89, suggesting that its stock price is 89% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Denison Mines had 3 more articles in the media than Energy Fuels. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Denison Mines and 3 mentions for Energy Fuels. Denison Mines' average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Energy Fuels' score of 0.96 indicating that Energy Fuels is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Denison Mines has a net margin of 1,986.78% compared to Denison Mines' net margin of -24.61%. Energy Fuels' return on equity of 13.47% beat Denison Mines' return on equity.
Summary
Denison Mines beats Energy Fuels on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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