PRU vs. PAAS, AGI, YRI, WFT, BTO, LUG, ELD, OR, EQX, and ASR
Should you be buying Perseus Mining stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Perseus Mining include Pan American Silver (PAAS), Alamos Gold (AGI), Yamana Gold (YRI), West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) (WFT), B2Gold (BTO), Lundin Gold (LUG), Eldorado Gold (ELD), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Equinox Gold (EQX), and Alacer Gold (ASR). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Pan American Silver (TSE:PAAS) and Perseus Mining (TSE:PRU) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, profitability, risk, earnings, dividends and media sentiment.
Pan American Silver pays an annual dividend of C$0.55 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Perseus Mining pays an annual dividend of C$0.03 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Pan American Silver pays out -83.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Perseus Mining pays out 10.0% 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. Pan American Silver is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Pan American Silver has a beta of 1.36, suggesting that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Perseus Mining has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Pan American Silver received 159 more outperform votes than Perseus Mining when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.53% of users gave Pan American Silver an outperform vote while only 55.80% of users gave Perseus Mining an outperform vote.
Perseus Mining has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Pan American Silver. Pan American Silver is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Perseus Mining, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Pan American Silver presently has a consensus price target of C$29.31, indicating a potential downside of 2.32%. Given Perseus Mining's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Pan American Silver is more favorable than Perseus Mining.
In the previous week, Pan American Silver had 1 more articles in the media than Perseus Mining. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Pan American Silver and 4 mentions for Perseus Mining. Pan American Silver's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Perseus Mining's score of 0.67 indicating that Perseus Mining is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Perseus Mining has a net margin of 31.06% compared to Perseus Mining's net margin of -5.97%. Pan American Silver's return on equity of 24.92% beat Perseus Mining's return on equity.
63.3% of Pan American Silver shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.3% of Perseus Mining shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Pan American Silver shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Perseus Mining shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Pan American Silver beats Perseus Mining on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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