EQX vs. PAAS, AGI, YRI, WFT, BTO, LUG, ELD, OR, PRU, and ASR
Should you be buying Equinox Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Equinox Gold 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), Perseus Mining (PRU), and Alacer Gold (ASR). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Equinox Gold (TSE:EQX) and Pan American Silver (TSE:PAAS) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.
45.5% of Equinox Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.3% of Pan American Silver shares are held by institutional investors. 6.5% of Equinox Gold shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Pan American Silver shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Equinox Gold has a net margin of -2.86% compared to Pan American Silver's net margin of -5.97%. Equinox Gold's return on equity of -1.30% beat Pan American Silver's return on equity.
Pan American Silver received 244 more outperform votes than Equinox Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.53% of users gave Pan American Silver an outperform vote while only 41.03% of users gave Equinox Gold an outperform vote.
Equinox Gold has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Pan American Silver. Equinox Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pan American Silver, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Pan American Silver had 4 more articles in the media than Equinox Gold. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Pan American Silver and 1 mentions for Equinox Gold. Pan American Silver's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Equinox Gold's score of 0.00 indicating that Pan American Silver is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Pan American Silver has a consensus target price of C$29.31, suggesting a potential downside of 2.32%. Given Pan American Silver's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Pan American Silver is more favorable than Equinox Gold.
Equinox Gold has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pan American Silver has a beta of 1.36, suggesting that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Pan American Silver beats Equinox Gold on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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