CEE vs. AGI, YRI, WFT, BTO, LUG, ELD, OR, PRU, EQX, and ASR
Should you be buying Centamin stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Centamin include 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), Equinox Gold (EQX), and Alacer Gold (ASR). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Centamin (TSE:CEE) and Alamos Gold (TSE:AGI) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, risk and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Alamos Gold had 2 more articles in the media than Centamin. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Alamos Gold and 2 mentions for Centamin. Centamin's average media sentiment score of 1.36 beat Alamos Gold's score of 0.56 indicating that Centamin is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Centamin has a beta of 0.58, indicating that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alamos Gold has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alamos Gold has a net margin of 19.41% compared to Centamin's net margin of 10.35%. Centamin's return on equity of 14.33% beat Alamos Gold's return on equity.
Alamos Gold received 481 more outperform votes than Centamin when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.98% of users gave Centamin an outperform vote while only 61.98% of users gave Alamos Gold an outperform vote.
Alamos Gold has a consensus target price of C$22.55, suggesting a potential downside of 1.05%. Given Alamos Gold's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Alamos Gold is more favorable than Centamin.
61.8% of Centamin shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.8% of Alamos Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Centamin shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Alamos Gold shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Alamos Gold has higher revenue and earnings than Centamin. Centamin is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alamos Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Centamin pays an annual dividend of C$0.05 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Alamos Gold pays an annual dividend of C$0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Centamin pays out 45.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alamos Gold pays out 19.7% 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.
Summary
Alamos Gold beats Centamin on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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