NGD vs. PAAS, YRI, LUG, WFT, EDV, OR, PRU, BTO, IMG, and EQX
Should you be buying New Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of New Gold include Pan American Silver (PAAS), Yamana Gold (YRI), Lundin Gold (LUG), West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) (WFT), Endeavour Mining (EDV), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Perseus Mining (PRU), B2Gold (BTO), IAMGOLD (IMG), and Equinox Gold (EQX). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
New Gold vs.
Pan American Silver (TSE:PAAS) and New Gold (TSE:NGD) 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 dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Pan American Silver presently has a consensus price target of C$45.25, indicating a potential upside of 21.93%. New Gold has a consensus price target of C$3.71, indicating a potential downside of 22.87%. Given Pan American Silver's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Pan American Silver is more favorable than New Gold.
In the previous week, New Gold had 1 more articles in the media than Pan American Silver. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for New Gold and 1 mentions for Pan American Silver. New Gold's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Pan American Silver's score of 0.40 indicating that New Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
New Gold received 7 more outperform votes than Pan American Silver when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.69% of users gave Pan American Silver an outperform vote while only 41.37% of users gave New Gold an outperform vote.
New Gold has a net margin of 2.33% compared to Pan American Silver's net margin of -1.78%. New Gold's return on equity of 2.31% beat Pan American Silver's return on equity.
62.0% of Pan American Silver shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.8% of New Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Pan American Silver shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.9% of New Gold shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
New Gold has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Pan American Silver. Pan American Silver is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than New Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Pan American Silver has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New Gold has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
New Gold beats Pan American Silver on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:NGD) was last updated on 3/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
