SEA vs. WFT, BTO, LUG, ELD, OR, PRU, EQX, ASR, IMG, and FVI
Should you be buying Seabridge Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Seabridge Gold 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.
West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) (TSE:WFT) and Seabridge Gold (TSE:SEA) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Seabridge Gold's return on equity of 0.00% beat West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO)'s return on equity.
Seabridge Gold has a consensus target price of C$25.00, suggesting a potential upside of 15.74%.
53.0% of Seabridge Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 2.8% of Seabridge Gold shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) has higher revenue and earnings than Seabridge Gold. Seabridge Gold 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.
In the previous week, Seabridge Gold had 1 more articles in the media than West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO). MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Seabridge Gold and 0 mentions for West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO). West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO)'s average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Seabridge Gold's score of 0.00 indicating that Seabridge Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) pays an annual dividend of C$0.80 per share. Seabridge Gold pays an annual dividend of C$0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) pays out 14.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Seabridge Gold pays out -193.5% 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. Seabridge Gold is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) received 240 more outperform votes than Seabridge Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.15% of users gave West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) an outperform vote while only 64.38% of users gave Seabridge Gold an outperform vote.
Summary
West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) beats Seabridge Gold on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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