CEY vs. AUY, EDV, HGM, HOC, ACA, RSG, PAF, GGP, AMRQ, and CMCL
Should you be buying Centamin stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Centamin include Yamana Gold (AUY), Endeavour Mining (EDV), Highland Gold Mining Limited (HGM.L) (HGM), Hochschild Mining (HOC), Acacia Mining (ACA), Resolute Mining (RSG), Pan African Resources (PAF), Greatland Gold (GGP), Amaroq Minerals (AMRQ), and Caledonia Mining (CMCL). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Centamin (LON:CEY) and Yamana Gold (LON:AUY) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment and earnings.
61.7% of Centamin shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.8% of Yamana Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Centamin shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Yamana Gold shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Centamin has a net margin of 10.35% compared to Yamana Gold's net margin of -54.36%. Centamin's return on equity of 14.33% beat Yamana Gold's return on equity.
Centamin has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Yamana Gold. Yamana Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Centamin, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Centamin has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yamana Gold has a beta of 1.29, suggesting that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Centamin's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat Yamana Gold's score of 0.00 indicating that Centamin is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Centamin pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Yamana Gold pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share. Centamin pays out 5,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Yamana Gold pays out -1,204.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Centamin presently has a consensus price target of GBX 150, indicating a potential upside of 25.73%.
Centamin received 808 more outperform votes than Yamana Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 95.45% of users gave Yamana Gold an outperform vote while only 65.48% of users gave Centamin an outperform vote.
Summary
Centamin beats Yamana Gold on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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