TGB vs. GATO, DRD, EXK, NFGC, ARMN, MUX, VZLA, PPTA, SA, and CGAU
Should you be buying Taseko Mines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Taseko Mines include Gatos Silver (GATO), DRDGOLD (DRD), Endeavour Silver (EXK), New Found Gold (NFGC), Aris Mining (ARMN), McEwen Mining (MUX), Vizsla Silver (VZLA), Perpetua Resources (PPTA), Seabridge Gold (SA), and Centerra Gold (CGAU). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
Taseko Mines (NYSE:TGB) and Gatos Silver (NYSE:GATO) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, community ranking, earnings, valuation and media sentiment.
Taseko Mines has a beta of 1.91, indicating that its stock price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gatos Silver has a beta of 2.1, indicating that its stock price is 110% more volatile than the S&P 500.
17.9% of Taseko Mines shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.8% of Gatos Silver shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Taseko Mines shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Gatos Silver shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Gatos Silver received 7 more outperform votes than Taseko Mines when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 34.62% of users gave Gatos Silver an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave Taseko Mines an outperform vote.
Taseko Mines has higher revenue and earnings than Gatos Silver. Taseko Mines is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gatos Silver, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Taseko Mines had 1 more articles in the media than Gatos Silver. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Taseko Mines and 2 mentions for Gatos Silver. Gatos Silver's average media sentiment score of 0.39 beat Taseko Mines' score of -0.20 indicating that Gatos Silver is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Taseko Mines presently has a consensus price target of $2.83, suggesting a potential downside of 4.60%. Gatos Silver has a consensus price target of $10.25, suggesting a potential downside of 13.94%. Given Taseko Mines' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Taseko Mines is more favorable than Gatos Silver.
Taseko Mines has a net margin of 17.37% compared to Gatos Silver's net margin of 0.00%. Taseko Mines' return on equity of 11.44% beat Gatos Silver's return on equity.
Summary
Taseko Mines beats Gatos Silver on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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