OGC vs. YRI, LUG, WFT, EDV, OR, PRU, BTO, IMG, EQX, and ELD
Should you be buying OceanaGold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of OceanaGold include 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), Equinox Gold (EQX), and Eldorado Gold (ELD). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
OceanaGold vs.
Yamana Gold (TSE:YRI) and OceanaGold (TSE:OGC) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and institutional ownership.
Yamana Gold has a beta of 1.29, meaning that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OceanaGold has a beta of 1.62, meaning that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500.
OceanaGold has a net margin of 5.86% compared to Yamana Gold's net margin of -54.36%. OceanaGold's return on equity of 3.82% beat Yamana Gold's return on equity.
Yamana Gold pays an annual dividend of C$0.55 per share. OceanaGold pays an annual dividend of C$0.03 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Yamana Gold pays out -39.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. OceanaGold pays out 24.3% 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.
OceanaGold has a consensus price target of C$5.58, indicating a potential upside of 20.33%. Given OceanaGold's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe OceanaGold is more favorable than Yamana Gold.
OceanaGold has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Yamana Gold. Yamana Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than OceanaGold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Yamana Gold received 333 more outperform votes than OceanaGold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 51.79% of users gave Yamana Gold an outperform vote while only 37.50% of users gave OceanaGold an outperform vote.
63.8% of Yamana Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.5% of OceanaGold shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Yamana Gold shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of OceanaGold shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, OceanaGold had 10 more articles in the media than Yamana Gold. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for OceanaGold and 0 mentions for Yamana Gold. OceanaGold's average media sentiment score of 0.18 beat Yamana Gold's score of 0.00 indicating that OceanaGold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
OceanaGold beats Yamana Gold on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:OGC) was last updated on 3/27/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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