CEE vs. AGI, YRI, WFT, BTO, LUG, ELD, OR, PRU, ASR, and EQX
Should you be buying Centamin stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Centamin include Alamos Gold (AGI), Yamana Gold (YRI), West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) (WFT), B2Gold (BTO), Lundin Gold (LUG), Eldorado Gold (ELD), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Perseus Mining (PRU), Alacer Gold (ASR), and Equinox Gold (EQX). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Centamin (TSE:CEE) and Alamos Gold (TSE:AGI) 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 analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking and valuation.
Alamos Gold has a consensus price target of C$22.55, indicating a potential upside of 2.59%. Given Alamos Gold's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Alamos Gold is more favorable than Centamin.
Alamos Gold has a net margin of 19.41% compared to Centamin's net margin of 10.35%. Centamin's return on equity of 14.33% beat Alamos Gold's return on equity.
Centamin has a beta of 0.58, meaning that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alamos Gold has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alamos Gold received 481 more outperform votes than Centamin when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.98% of users gave Centamin an outperform vote while only 61.98% of users gave Alamos Gold an outperform vote.
61.8% of Centamin shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.8% of Alamos Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Centamin shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Alamos Gold shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Alamos Gold has higher revenue and earnings than Centamin. Centamin is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alamos Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Alamos Gold had 4 more articles in the media than Centamin. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Alamos Gold and 0 mentions for Centamin. Alamos Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Centamin's score of 0.00 indicating that Alamos Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Centamin pays an annual dividend of C$0.05 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Alamos Gold pays an annual dividend of C$0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Centamin pays out 45.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alamos Gold pays out 19.7% 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.
Summary
Alamos Gold beats Centamin on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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