SBR vs. USA, KTN, SVE, IPT, GPR, LVN, EXN, MSV, KS, and AUN
Should you be buying Silver Bear Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Silver Bear Resources include Americas Silver (USA), Kootenay Silver (KTN), Silver One Resources (SVE), IMPACT Silver (IPT), Great Panther Mining (GPR), Levon Resources (LVN), Excellon Resources (EXN), Minco Silver (MSV), Klondike Silver (KS), and Aurcana Silver (AUN). These companies are all part of the "silver" industry.
Americas Silver (TSE:USA) and Silver Bear Resources (TSE:SBR) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, earnings and profitability.
16.4% of Americas Silver shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Americas Silver shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 86.7% of Silver Bear Resources shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Americas Silver currently has a consensus target price of C$0.38, indicating a potential downside of 20.21%. Given Silver Bear Resources' higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Americas Silver is more favorable than Silver Bear Resources.
Americas Silver has higher revenue and earnings than Silver Bear Resources. Silver Bear Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Americas Silver, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Americas Silver had 4 more articles in the media than Silver Bear Resources. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Americas Silver and 0 mentions for Silver Bear Resources. Silver Bear Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Americas Silver's score of 0.00 indicating that Americas Silver is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Silver Bear Resources received 38 more outperform votes than Americas Silver when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 82.50% of users gave Silver Bear Resources an outperform vote while only 68.38% of users gave Americas Silver an outperform vote.
Americas Silver pays an annual dividend of C$0.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 36.2%. Silver Bear Resources pays an annual dividend of C$3.35 per share and has a dividend yield of 6,700.0%. Americas Silver pays out -68.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Silver Bear Resources pays out -16,750.0% 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. Silver Bear Resources is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Silver Bear Resources has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Silver Bear Resources' net margin of -45.63%. Americas Silver's return on equity of 0.00% beat Silver Bear Resources' return on equity.
Americas Silver has a beta of 1.44, meaning that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Silver Bear Resources has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Silver Bear Resources beats Americas Silver on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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