IAG vs. CDE, SAND, AG, FSM, CGAU, SA, OR, TGB, GATO, and EGO
Should you be buying IAMGOLD stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IAMGOLD include Coeur Mining (CDE), Sandstorm Gold (SAND), First Majestic Silver (AG), Fortuna Silver Mines (FSM), Centerra Gold (CGAU), Seabridge Gold (SA), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Taseko Mines (TGB), Gatos Silver (GATO), and Eldorado Gold (EGO). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
IAMGOLD (NYSE:IAG) and Coeur Mining (NYSE:CDE) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
IAMGOLD received 121 more outperform votes than Coeur Mining when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.44% of users gave Coeur Mining an outperform vote while only 56.14% of users gave IAMGOLD an outperform vote.
47.1% of IAMGOLD shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.0% of Coeur Mining shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of IAMGOLD shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Coeur Mining shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
IAMGOLD has a net margin of 12.48% compared to Coeur Mining's net margin of -12.77%. IAMGOLD's return on equity of 3.17% beat Coeur Mining's return on equity.
IAMGOLD presently has a consensus price target of $3.62, suggesting a potential downside of 19.70%. Coeur Mining has a consensus price target of $4.36, suggesting a potential downside of 25.81%. Given IAMGOLD's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe IAMGOLD is more favorable than Coeur Mining.
IAMGOLD has higher revenue and earnings than Coeur Mining. Coeur Mining is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IAMGOLD, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
IAMGOLD has a beta of 1.68, suggesting that its stock price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coeur Mining has a beta of 1.77, suggesting that its stock price is 77% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, IAMGOLD had 16 more articles in the media than Coeur Mining. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for IAMGOLD and 4 mentions for Coeur Mining. IAMGOLD's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Coeur Mining's score of 0.21 indicating that IAMGOLD is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
IAMGOLD beats Coeur Mining on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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