DPM vs. YRI, WFT, BTO, LUG, ELD, OR, PRU, EQX, ASR, and IMG
Should you be buying Dundee Precious Metals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dundee Precious Metals include 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), Alacer Gold (ASR), and IAMGOLD (IMG). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Yamana Gold (TSE:YRI) and Dundee Precious Metals (TSE:DPM) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, valuation, dividends and media sentiment.
Yamana Gold pays an annual dividend of C$0.55 per share. Dundee Precious Metals pays an annual dividend of C$0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Yamana Gold pays out -39.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Dundee Precious Metals pays out 16.7% 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.
63.8% of Yamana Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.3% of Dundee Precious Metals shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Yamana Gold shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Dundee Precious Metals shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Dundee Precious Metals has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Yamana Gold. Yamana Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dundee Precious Metals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Dundee Precious Metals had 3 more articles in the media than Yamana Gold. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Dundee Precious Metals and 1 mentions for Yamana Gold. Yamana Gold's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Dundee Precious Metals' score of 0.67 indicating that Dundee Precious Metals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Yamana Gold has a beta of 1.29, indicating that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dundee Precious Metals has a beta of 1.23, indicating that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Dundee Precious Metals has a consensus target price of C$13.97, suggesting a potential upside of 24.17%.
Yamana Gold received 20 more outperform votes than Dundee Precious Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.19% of users gave Dundee Precious Metals an outperform vote while only 51.79% of users gave Yamana Gold an outperform vote.
Dundee Precious Metals has a net margin of 37.12% compared to Dundee Precious Metals' net margin of -54.36%. Yamana Gold's return on equity of 16.18% beat Dundee Precious Metals' return on equity.
Summary
Dundee Precious Metals beats Yamana Gold on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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