CG vs. YRI, WFT, BTO, LUG, ELD, OR, PRU, EQX, ASR, and IMG
Should you be buying Centerra Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Centerra Gold include Yamana Gold (YRI), West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) (WFT), B2Gold (BTO), Lundin Gold (LUG), Eldorado Gold (ELD), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Perseus Mining (PRU), Equinox Gold (EQX), Alacer Gold (ASR), and IAMGOLD (IMG). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Yamana Gold (TSE:YRI) and Centerra Gold (TSE:CG) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends and media sentiment.
In the previous week, Centerra Gold had 2 more articles in the media than Yamana Gold. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Centerra Gold and 1 mentions for Yamana Gold. Centerra Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Yamana Gold's score of 0.20 indicating that Yamana Gold is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Centerra Gold has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Yamana Gold. Yamana Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Centerra Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Centerra Gold has a consensus target price of C$10.96, suggesting a potential upside of 16.98%.
Yamana Gold pays an annual dividend of C$0.55 per share. Centerra Gold pays an annual dividend of C$0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Yamana Gold pays out -39.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Centerra Gold pays out 77.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Yamana Gold has a beta of 1.29, meaning that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Centerra Gold has a beta of 1.19, meaning that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Centerra Gold received 10 more outperform votes than Yamana Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 51.79% of users gave Yamana Gold an outperform vote while only 49.65% of users gave Centerra Gold an outperform vote.
Centerra Gold has a net margin of 4.99% compared to Centerra Gold's net margin of -54.36%. Yamana Gold's return on equity of 3.40% beat Centerra Gold's return on equity.
63.8% of Yamana Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.2% of Centerra Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Yamana Gold shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Centerra Gold shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Centerra Gold beats Yamana Gold on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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