IVN vs. AFM, ALS, LAC, MDI, POM, SKE, GLO, AOT, AMC, and SLI
Should you be buying Ivanhoe Mines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ivanhoe Mines include Alphamin Resources (AFM), Altius Minerals (ALS), Lithium Americas (LAC), Major Drilling Group International (MDI), PolyMet Mining (POM), Skeena Resources (SKE), Global Atomic (GLO), Ascot Resources (AOT), Arizona Metals (AMC), and Standard Lithium (SLI). These companies are all part of the "other industrial metals & mining" industry.
Alphamin Resources (CVE:AFM) and Ivanhoe Mines (TSE:IVN) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
Alphamin Resources has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ivanhoe Mines has a beta of 1.98, suggesting that its stock price is 98% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ivanhoe Mines received 543 more outperform votes than Alphamin Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.46% of users gave Ivanhoe Mines an outperform vote while only 72.41% of users gave Alphamin Resources an outperform vote.
Ivanhoe Mines has a consensus price target of C$23.17, indicating a potential upside of 17.72%. Given Alphamin Resources' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ivanhoe Mines is more favorable than Alphamin Resources.
Ivanhoe Mines has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Alphamin Resources. Alphamin Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ivanhoe Mines, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alphamin Resources has a net margin of 16.36% compared to Alphamin Resources' net margin of 0.00%. Ivanhoe Mines' return on equity of 16.79% beat Alphamin Resources' return on equity.
2.3% of Alphamin Resources shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.5% of Ivanhoe Mines shares are held by institutional investors. 58.6% of Alphamin Resources shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 50.9% of Ivanhoe Mines shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Ivanhoe Mines had 4 more articles in the media than Alphamin Resources. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Ivanhoe Mines and 3 mentions for Alphamin Resources. Alphamin Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.44 beat Ivanhoe Mines' score of 0.00 indicating that Ivanhoe Mines is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Ivanhoe Mines beats Alphamin Resources on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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