SSRM vs. WFT, BTO, LUG, ELD, OR, PRU, EQX, ASR, IMG, and FVI
Should you be buying SSR Mining stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SSR Mining include 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), IAMGOLD (IMG), and Fortuna Silver Mines (FVI). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
SSR Mining (TSE:SSRM) and West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) (TSE:WFT) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, risk, earnings and dividends.
70.7% of SSR Mining shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of SSR Mining shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, SSR Mining's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO)'saverage media sentiment score.
West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) received 171 more outperform votes than SSR Mining when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.15% of users gave West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) an outperform vote while only 67.52% of users gave SSR Mining an outperform vote.
SSR Mining pays an annual dividend of C$0.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) pays an annual dividend of C$0.80 per share. SSR Mining pays out -13.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) pays out 14.9% 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. SSR Mining is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
SSR Mining presently has a consensus price target of C$10.96, suggesting a potential upside of 50.73%.
West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) has higher revenue and earnings than SSR Mining. SSR Mining is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO), indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) has a net margin of 0.00% compared to SSR Mining's net margin of -30.90%. West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO)'s return on equity of 0.00% beat SSR Mining's return on equity.
Summary
West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) beats SSR Mining on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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