Reviewing Silver Standard Resources (SSRM) and The Competition

Silver Standard Resources (NASDAQ:SSRM) is one of 1,984 publicly-traded companies in the “Metals & Mining” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Silver Standard Resources to related businesses based on the strength of its institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings for Silver Standard Resources and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Silver Standard Resources	1	1	7	1	2.80
Silver Standard Resources Competitors	6404	22596	32294	1796	2.47

Silver Standard Resources presently has a consensus target price of $42.20, indicating a potential upside of 51.15%. As a group, “Metals & Mining” companies have a potential upside of 28.32%. Given Silver Standard Resources’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Silver Standard Resources is more favorable than its peers.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

68.3% of Silver Standard Resources shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.1% of shares of all “Metals & Mining” companies are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Silver Standard Resources shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.6% of shares of all “Metals & Mining” companies 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.

Profitability

This table compares Silver Standard Resources and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Silver Standard Resources	12.64%	17.81%	13.24%
Silver Standard Resources Competitors	-1,168,050,136,845,918,000.00%	-53.16%	-2.09%

Risk & Volatility

Silver Standard Resources has a beta of -0.09, indicating that its share price is 109% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Silver Standard Resources’ peers have a beta of 0.97, indicating that their average share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Dividends

Silver Standard Resources pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Silver Standard Resources pays out 10.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Metals & Mining” companies pay a dividend yield of 10.3% and pay out 10.8% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. Silver Standard Resources lags its peers as a dividend stock, given its lower dividend yield and higher payout ratio.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Silver Standard Resources and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Silver Standard Resources	$1.63 billion	$395.75 million	25.38
Silver Standard Resources Competitors	$4.79 billion	$279.47 million	-45.00

Silver Standard Resources’ peers have higher revenue, but lower earnings than Silver Standard Resources. Silver Standard Resources is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Summary

Silver Standard Resources beats its peers on 10 of the 15 factors compared.

Silver Standard Resources Company Profile

SSR Mining Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the operation, acquisition, exploration, and development of precious metal resource properties in the United States, Türkiye, Canada, and Argentina. The company explores for gold doré, copper, silver, lead, and zinc deposits. Its mines include the Çöpler, located in Erzincan province, Turkey; the Marigold, located in Nevada, the United States; the Seabee, located in Saskatchewan, Canada; and the Puna, located in Jujuy province, Argentina. The company was formerly known as Silver Standard Resources Inc. and changed its name to SSR Mining Inc. in August 2017. SSR Mining Inc. was incorporated in 1946 and is based in Denver, Colorado.