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.
Centerra Gold (TSE:CG) and Yamana Gold (TSE:YRI) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.
Centerra Gold has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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 beta of 1.19, suggesting that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yamana Gold has a beta of 1.29, suggesting that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Centerra Gold pays an annual dividend of C$0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Yamana Gold pays an annual dividend of C$0.55 per share. 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 pays out -39.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
86.2% of Centerra Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.8% of Yamana Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Centerra Gold shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Yamana Gold shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Centerra Gold had 1 more articles in the media than Yamana Gold. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Centerra Gold and 1 mentions for Yamana Gold. Yamana Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Centerra Gold's score of 0.20 indicating that Yamana Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Centerra Gold presently has a consensus price target of C$10.96, suggesting a potential upside of 16.98%.
Centerra Gold has a net margin of 4.99% compared to Yamana Gold's net margin of -54.36%. Centerra Gold's return on equity of 3.40% beat Yamana Gold's return on equity.
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.
Summary
Centerra Gold beats Yamana Gold on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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