FSM vs. AGI, HMY, BTG, SBSW, EGO, OR, CDE, IAG, AG, and SAND
Should you be buying Fortuna Silver Mines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fortuna Silver Mines include Alamos Gold (AGI), Harmony Gold Mining (HMY), B2Gold (BTG), Sibanye Stillwater (SBSW), Eldorado Gold (EGO), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Coeur Mining (CDE), IAMGOLD (IAG), First Majestic Silver (AG), and Sandstorm Gold (SAND). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
Alamos Gold (NYSE:AGI) and Fortuna Silver Mines (NYSE:FSM) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.
Alamos Gold has higher revenue and earnings than Fortuna Silver Mines. Fortuna Silver Mines is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alamos Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
64.3% of Alamos Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.8% of Fortuna Silver Mines shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Alamos Gold shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Fortuna Silver Mines shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Alamos Gold received 64 more outperform votes than Fortuna Silver Mines when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.97% of users gave Alamos Gold an outperform vote while only 53.47% of users gave Fortuna Silver Mines an outperform vote.
Alamos Gold has a net margin of 19.41% compared to Alamos Gold's net margin of -3.94%. Fortuna Silver Mines' return on equity of 7.38% beat Alamos Gold's return on equity.
Alamos Gold currently has a consensus price target of $18.15, suggesting a potential upside of 8.62%. Fortuna Silver Mines has a consensus price target of $8.25, suggesting a potential upside of 32.21%. Given Alamos Gold's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Fortuna Silver Mines is more favorable than Alamos Gold.
In the previous week, Alamos Gold had 5 more articles in the media than Fortuna Silver Mines. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Alamos Gold and 6 mentions for Fortuna Silver Mines. Fortuna Silver Mines' average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Alamos Gold's score of 0.73 indicating that Alamos Gold is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Alamos Gold has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fortuna Silver Mines has a beta of 1.57, meaning that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Alamos Gold beats Fortuna Silver Mines on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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