SMT vs. TECK.A, AMC, AFM, EMO, SLI, ETG, WRN, TMQ, FVL, and FWZ
Should you be buying Sierra Metals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sierra Metals include Teck Resources (TECK.A), Arizona Metals (AMC), Alphamin Resources (AFM), Emerita Resources (EMO), Standard Lithium (SLI), Entrée Resources (ETG), Western Copper and Gold (WRN), Trilogy Metals (TMQ), Freegold Ventures (FVL), and Fireweed Metals (FWZ). These companies are all part of the "other industrial metals & mining" industry.
Sierra Metals vs.
Teck Resources (TSE:TECK.A) and Sierra Metals (TSE:SMT) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation and profitability.
Sierra Metals has a consensus price target of C$1.10, suggesting a potential upside of 39.24%. Given Sierra Metals' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Sierra Metals is more favorable than Teck Resources.
Teck Resources has a net margin of 9.41% compared to Sierra Metals' net margin of -1.86%. Teck Resources' return on equity of 5.03% beat Sierra Metals' return on equity.
0.1% of Teck Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.4% of Sierra Metals shares are owned by institutional investors. 75.9% of Teck Resources shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Sierra Metals shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Teck Resources has higher revenue and earnings than Sierra Metals. Sierra Metals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Teck Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Teck Resources had 2 more articles in the media than Sierra Metals. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Teck Resources and 2 mentions for Sierra Metals. Teck Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.19 beat Sierra Metals' score of 0.08 indicating that Teck Resources is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Teck Resources has a beta of 1.37, suggesting that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sierra Metals has a beta of 2.12, suggesting that its share price is 112% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sierra Metals received 58 more outperform votes than Teck Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave Teck Resources an outperform vote while only 44.75% of users gave Sierra Metals an outperform vote.
Teck Resources pays an annual dividend of C$0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Sierra Metals pays an annual dividend of C$0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Teck Resources pays out 17.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sierra Metals pays out -105.4% 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. Sierra Metals is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Teck Resources beats Sierra Metals on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:SMT) was last updated on 3/30/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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