FVI vs. AGI, YRI, WFT, BTO, LUG, ELD, OR, PRU, EQX, and ASR
Should you be buying Fortuna Silver Mines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fortuna Silver Mines include Alamos Gold (AGI), Yamana Gold (YRI), West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) (WFT), B2Gold (BTO), Lundin Gold (LUG), Eldorado Gold (ELD), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Perseus Mining (PRU), Equinox Gold (EQX), and Alacer Gold (ASR). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Alamos Gold (TSE:AGI) and Fortuna Silver Mines (TSE:FVI) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, profitability, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Alamos Gold had 3 more articles in the media than Fortuna Silver Mines. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Alamos Gold and 1 mentions for Fortuna Silver Mines. Fortuna Silver Mines' average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Alamos Gold's score of 0.05 indicating that Alamos Gold is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Alamos Gold has a net margin of 19.41% compared to Alamos Gold's net margin of -3.98%. Fortuna Silver Mines' return on equity of 7.12% beat Alamos Gold's return on equity.
Alamos Gold received 358 more outperform votes than Fortuna Silver Mines when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.98% of users gave Alamos Gold an outperform vote while only 50.86% of users gave Fortuna Silver Mines an outperform vote.
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.
Alamos Gold presently has a consensus target price of C$22.55, indicating a potential downside of 1.05%. Fortuna Silver Mines has a consensus target price of C$7.55, indicating a potential downside of 11.59%. Given Fortuna Silver Mines' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Alamos Gold is more favorable than Fortuna Silver Mines.
69.8% of Alamos Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.0% of Fortuna Silver Mines shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Alamos Gold shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Fortuna Silver Mines shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Alamos Gold has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fortuna Silver Mines has a beta of 1.6, indicating that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Alamos Gold beats Fortuna Silver Mines on 16 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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