SMT vs. POM, ETG, TECK.A, AMC, NDM, SLI, FVL, EMO, WRN, and EMX
Should you be buying Sierra Metals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sierra Metals include PolyMet Mining (POM), Entrée Resources (ETG), Teck Resources (TECK.A), Arizona Metals (AMC), Northern Dynasty Minerals (NDM), Standard Lithium (SLI), Freegold Ventures (FVL), Emerita Resources (EMO), Western Copper and Gold (WRN), and EMX Royalty (EMX). These companies are all part of the "other industrial metals & mining" industry.
Sierra Metals vs.
Sierra Metals (TSE:SMT) and PolyMet Mining (TSE:POM) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, valuation, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Sierra Metals currently has a consensus target price of C$1.10, suggesting a potential upside of 29.41%. Given Sierra Metals' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Sierra Metals is more favorable than PolyMet Mining.
Sierra Metals has a beta of 2.12, suggesting that its stock price is 112% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PolyMet Mining has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
22.4% of Sierra Metals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.7% of PolyMet Mining shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.9% of Sierra Metals shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 82.5% of PolyMet Mining shares are owned by company 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.
Sierra Metals pays an annual dividend of C$0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. PolyMet Mining pays an annual dividend of C$1.08 per share. Sierra Metals pays out -50.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PolyMet Mining pays out -400.0% 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.
In the previous week, Sierra Metals had 5 more articles in the media than PolyMet Mining. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Sierra Metals and 0 mentions for PolyMet Mining. Sierra Metals' average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat PolyMet Mining's score of 0.00 indicating that Sierra Metals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
PolyMet Mining has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Sierra Metals' net margin of -7.45%. PolyMet Mining's return on equity of -5.88% beat Sierra Metals' return on equity.
Sierra Metals received 66 more outperform votes than PolyMet Mining when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.55% of users gave PolyMet Mining an outperform vote while only 44.75% of users gave Sierra Metals an outperform vote.
Sierra Metals has higher revenue and earnings than PolyMet Mining. Sierra Metals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PolyMet Mining, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Sierra Metals beats PolyMet Mining on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:SMT) was last updated on 12/18/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
