WDO vs. PAAS, OGC, YRI, EDV, OR, WFT, BTO, ELD, IMG, and NGD
Should you be buying Wesdome Gold Mines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wesdome Gold Mines include Pan American Silver (PAAS), OceanaGold (OGC), Yamana Gold (YRI), Endeavour Mining (EDV), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) (WFT), B2Gold (BTO), Eldorado Gold (ELD), IAMGOLD (IMG), and New Gold (NGD). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Wesdome Gold Mines vs. Its Competitors
Pan American Silver (TSE:PAAS) and Wesdome Gold Mines (TSE:WDO) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends, earnings, risk and media sentiment.
Pan American Silver has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wesdome Gold Mines has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Wesdome Gold Mines has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Pan American Silver. Pan American Silver is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wesdome Gold Mines, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Pan American Silver had 1 more articles in the media than Wesdome Gold Mines. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Pan American Silver and 1 mentions for Wesdome Gold Mines. Wesdome Gold Mines' average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Pan American Silver's score of -0.18 indicating that Wesdome Gold Mines is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
62.0% of Pan American Silver shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.4% of Wesdome Gold Mines shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Pan American Silver shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Wesdome Gold Mines shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Wesdome Gold Mines has a net margin of 17.01% compared to Pan American Silver's net margin of -1.78%. Wesdome Gold Mines' return on equity of 17.53% beat Pan American Silver's return on equity.
Pan American Silver currently has a consensus price target of C$52.50, suggesting a potential upside of 40.83%. Wesdome Gold Mines has a consensus price target of C$19.50, suggesting a potential upside of 19.12%. Given Pan American Silver's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Pan American Silver is more favorable than Wesdome Gold Mines.
Summary
Wesdome Gold Mines beats Pan American Silver on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (TSE:WDO) was last updated on 8/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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