McEwen Mining (MUX) Competitors

Coro Mining (TSE:COP) and McEwen Mining (TSE:MUX) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Which has better valuation and earnings, COP or MUX?

McEwen Mining has higher revenue and earnings than Coro Mining. Coro Mining is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than McEwen Mining, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Coro Mining	N/A	N/A	N/A	-C$0.01	N/A
McEwen Mining	C$185.79M	3.41	C$86.62M	C$2.54	4.70

Is COP or MUX a better dividend stock?

Coro Mining pays an annual dividend of C$1.14 per share. McEwen Mining pays an annual dividend of C$0.01 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Coro Mining pays out -11,400.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. McEwen Mining pays out 0.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

Is COP or MUX more profitable?

McEwen Mining has a net margin of 46.63% compared to Coro Mining's net margin of 0.00%. McEwen Mining's return on equity of 16.78% beat Coro Mining's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Coro Mining	N/A	N/A	N/A
McEwen Mining	46.63%	16.78%	-3.02%

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in COP or MUX?

23.1% of McEwen Mining shares are held by institutional investors. 11.9% of McEwen Mining shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media favor COP or MUX?

In the previous week, McEwen Mining had 1 more articles in the media than Coro Mining. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for McEwen Mining and 0 mentions for Coro Mining. McEwen Mining's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Coro Mining's score of 0.00 indicating that McEwen Mining is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Coro Mining	Neutral
McEwen Mining	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community favor COP or MUX?

McEwen Mining received 61 more outperform votes than Coro Mining when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.51% of users gave McEwen Mining an outperform vote while only 65.63% of users gave Coro Mining an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Coro Mining	Outperform Votes 84 65.63%	Underperform Votes 44 34.38%
McEwen Mining	Outperform Votes 145 66.51%	Underperform Votes 73 33.49%

Summary

McEwen Mining beats Coro Mining on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.