IMG vs. PRU, EQX, CEE, SSL, OGC, FVI, DPM, CG, ELD, and OR
Should you be buying IAMGOLD stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IAMGOLD include Perseus Mining (PRU), Equinox Gold (EQX), Centamin (CEE), Sandstorm Gold (SSL), OceanaGold (OGC), Fortuna Silver Mines (FVI), Dundee Precious Metals (DPM), Centerra Gold (CG), Eldorado Gold (ELD), and Osisko Gold Royalties (OR). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
IAMGOLD (TSE:IMG) and Perseus Mining (TSE:PRU) 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 media sentiment, profitability, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, valuation and analyst recommendations.
IAMGOLD received 248 more outperform votes than Perseus Mining when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 55.80% of users gave Perseus Mining an outperform vote while only 52.17% of users gave IAMGOLD an outperform vote.
64.5% of IAMGOLD shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.4% of Perseus Mining shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of IAMGOLD shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Perseus Mining shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Perseus Mining has lower revenue, but higher earnings than IAMGOLD. Perseus Mining is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IAMGOLD, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Perseus Mining has a net margin of 31.06% compared to IAMGOLD's net margin of 12.48%. Perseus Mining's return on equity of 24.92% beat IAMGOLD's return on equity.
IAMGOLD has a beta of 1.44, suggesting that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Perseus Mining has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
IAMGOLD currently has a consensus target price of C$5.03, suggesting a potential downside of 18.56%. Given IAMGOLD's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe IAMGOLD is more favorable than Perseus Mining.
In the previous week, IAMGOLD had 14 more articles in the media than Perseus Mining. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for IAMGOLD and 1 mentions for Perseus Mining. IAMGOLD's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Perseus Mining's score of 0.00 indicating that IAMGOLD is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Perseus Mining beats IAMGOLD on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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