PPTA vs. CGAU, SA, SILV, EXK, TGB, GATO, DRD, NFGC, ARMN, and MUX
Should you be buying Perpetua Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Perpetua Resources include Centerra Gold (CGAU), Seabridge Gold (SA), SilverCrest Metals (SILV), Endeavour Silver (EXK), Taseko Mines (TGB), Gatos Silver (GATO), DRDGOLD (DRD), New Found Gold (NFGC), Aris Mining (ARMN), and McEwen Mining (MUX). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
Perpetua Resources (NASDAQ:PPTA) and Centerra Gold (NYSE:CGAU) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, dividends, earnings and valuation.
In the previous week, Centerra Gold had 3 more articles in the media than Perpetua Resources. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Centerra Gold and 2 mentions for Perpetua Resources. Perpetua Resources' average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat Centerra Gold's score of 0.83 indicating that Perpetua Resources is being referred to more favorably in the media.
70.1% of Perpetua Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.4% of Centerra Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of Perpetua Resources shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Centerra Gold shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Perpetua Resources has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Centerra Gold. Perpetua Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Centerra Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Centerra Gold has a net margin of 4.99% compared to Perpetua Resources' net margin of 0.00%. Centerra Gold's return on equity of 5.61% beat Perpetua Resources' return on equity.
Perpetua Resources has a beta of 0.22, suggesting that its share price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Centerra Gold has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Perpetua Resources presently has a consensus target price of $11.63, suggesting a potential upside of 83.36%. Centerra Gold has a consensus target price of $9.30, suggesting a potential upside of 34.20%. Given Perpetua Resources' higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Perpetua Resources is more favorable than Centerra Gold.
Centerra Gold received 3 more outperform votes than Perpetua Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.00% of users gave Perpetua Resources an outperform vote while only 24.05% of users gave Centerra Gold an outperform vote.
Summary
Centerra Gold beats Perpetua Resources on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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