SEA vs. WFT, OR, IMG, BTO, EQX, ELD, PRU, NGD, OGC, and OLA
Should you be buying Seabridge Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Seabridge Gold include West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) (WFT), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), IAMGOLD (IMG), B2Gold (BTO), Equinox Gold (EQX), Eldorado Gold (ELD), Perseus Mining (PRU), New Gold (NGD), OceanaGold (OGC), and Orla Mining (OLA). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Seabridge Gold vs.
Seabridge Gold (TSE:SEA) and West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) (TSE:WFT) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, dividends, risk and institutional ownership.
Seabridge Gold pays an annual dividend of C$0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) pays an annual dividend of C$0.80 per share. Seabridge Gold pays out -424.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) pays out 14.9% 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. Seabridge Gold is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Seabridge Gold had 3 more articles in the media than West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO). MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Seabridge Gold and 0 mentions for West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO). West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO)'s average media sentiment score of 1.57 beat Seabridge Gold's score of 0.17 indicating that West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) received 240 more outperform votes than Seabridge Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.15% of users gave West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) an outperform vote while only 64.38% of users gave Seabridge Gold an outperform vote.
53.2% of Seabridge Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.8% of Seabridge Gold shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) has higher revenue and earnings than Seabridge Gold. Seabridge Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO), indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO)'s return on equity of 0.00% beat Seabridge Gold's return on equity.
Summary
West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) beats Seabridge Gold on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:SEA) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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