WDO vs. WFT, BTO, LUG, ELD, OR, PRU, EQX, ASR, IMG, and FVI
Should you be buying Wesdome Gold Mines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wesdome Gold Mines 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.
Wesdome Gold Mines (TSE:WDO) and West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) (TSE:WFT) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings and dividends.
46.5% of Wesdome Gold Mines shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Wesdome Gold Mines shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Wesdome Gold Mines had 6 more articles in the media than West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO). MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Wesdome Gold Mines and 0 mentions for West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO). Wesdome Gold Mines' average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO)'s score of 0.00 indicating that Wesdome Gold Mines is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Wesdome Gold Mines currently has a consensus target price of C$11.68, indicating a potential upside of 4.99%.
Wesdome Gold Mines has a net margin of 1.36% compared to West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO)'s net margin of 0.00%. Wesdome Gold Mines' return on equity of 1.13% beat West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO)'s return on equity.
West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) has higher revenue and earnings than Wesdome Gold Mines. West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wesdome Gold Mines, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Wesdome Gold Mines received 140 more outperform votes than West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.15% of users gave West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) an outperform vote while only 64.96% of users gave Wesdome Gold Mines an outperform vote.
Summary
Wesdome Gold Mines beats West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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