OGC vs. YRI, WFT, BTO, LUG, ELD, OR, PRU, EQX, ASR, and IMG
Should you be buying OceanaGold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of OceanaGold 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.
Yamana Gold (TSE:YRI) and OceanaGold (TSE:OGC) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking and profitability.
OceanaGold has a net margin of 3.69% compared to OceanaGold's net margin of -54.36%. Yamana Gold's return on equity of 2.29% beat OceanaGold's return on equity.
In the previous week, OceanaGold had 3 more articles in the media than Yamana Gold. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for OceanaGold and 1 mentions for Yamana Gold. OceanaGold's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Yamana Gold's score of 0.11 indicating that Yamana Gold is being referred to more favorably in the media.
63.8% of Yamana Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.9% of OceanaGold shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Yamana Gold shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of OceanaGold shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
OceanaGold has a consensus target price of C$4.19, indicating a potential upside of 34.01%.
Yamana Gold received 339 more outperform votes than OceanaGold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 51.79% of users gave Yamana Gold an outperform vote while only 42.86% of users gave OceanaGold an outperform vote.
Yamana Gold has a beta of 1.29, suggesting that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OceanaGold has a beta of 1.61, suggesting that its share price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Yamana Gold pays an annual dividend of C$0.55 per share. OceanaGold pays an annual dividend of C$0.03 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Yamana Gold pays out -39.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. OceanaGold pays out 42.9% 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.
OceanaGold has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Yamana Gold. Yamana Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than OceanaGold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
OceanaGold beats Yamana Gold on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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