SMT vs. NOU, TECK.A, EMO, AMC, SLI, ETG, FVL, WRN, FWZ, and REG
Should you be buying Sierra Metals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sierra Metals include Nouveau Monde Graphite (NOU), Teck Resources (TECK.A), Emerita Resources (EMO), Arizona Metals (AMC), Standard Lithium (SLI), Entrée Resources (ETG), Freegold Ventures (FVL), Western Copper and Gold (WRN), Fireweed Metals (FWZ), and Regulus Resources (REG). These companies are all part of the "other industrial metals & mining" industry.
Sierra Metals vs.
Sierra Metals (TSE:SMT) and Nouveau Monde Graphite (CVE:NOU) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings and risk.
Sierra Metals has a beta of 2.12, meaning that its stock price is 112% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nouveau Monde Graphite has a beta of 1.82, meaning that its stock price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sierra Metals has higher revenue and earnings than Nouveau Monde Graphite. Sierra Metals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nouveau Monde Graphite, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
22.4% of Sierra Metals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.3% of Nouveau Monde Graphite shares are held by institutional investors. 2.9% of Sierra Metals shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 45.8% of Nouveau Monde Graphite 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.
In the previous week, Sierra Metals had 1 more articles in the media than Nouveau Monde Graphite. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Sierra Metals and 0 mentions for Nouveau Monde Graphite. Sierra Metals' average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Nouveau Monde Graphite's score of 0.00 indicating that Sierra Metals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sierra Metals presently has a consensus target price of C$1.10, suggesting a potential upside of 37.50%. Given Sierra Metals' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Sierra Metals is more favorable than Nouveau Monde Graphite.
Nouveau Monde Graphite has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Sierra Metals' net margin of -1.86%. Sierra Metals' return on equity of -5.83% beat Nouveau Monde Graphite's return on equity.
Sierra Metals received 84 more outperform votes than Nouveau Monde Graphite when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 81.36% of users gave Nouveau Monde Graphite an outperform vote while only 44.75% of users gave Sierra Metals an outperform vote.
Summary
Sierra Metals beats Nouveau Monde Graphite on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:SMT) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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