ELD vs. LUG, OR, BTO, PRU, EQX, IMG, CEE, SSL, FVI, and OGC
Should you be buying Eldorado Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eldorado Gold include Lundin Gold (LUG), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), B2Gold (BTO), Perseus Mining (PRU), Equinox Gold (EQX), IAMGOLD (IMG), Centamin (CEE), Sandstorm Gold (SSL), Fortuna Silver Mines (FVI), and OceanaGold (OGC). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Eldorado Gold (TSE:ELD) and Lundin Gold (TSE:LUG) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation and profitability.
Eldorado Gold received 427 more outperform votes than Lundin Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.73% of users gave Eldorado Gold an outperform vote while only 60.93% of users gave Lundin Gold an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Eldorado Gold and Eldorado Gold both had 9 articles in the media. Lundin Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat Eldorado Gold's score of 0.33 indicating that Lundin Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
79.1% of Eldorado Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.3% of Lundin Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Eldorado Gold shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 59.0% of Lundin Gold shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Eldorado Gold has a beta of 1.23, meaning that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lundin Gold has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lundin Gold has a net margin of 19.47% compared to Eldorado Gold's net margin of 11.45%. Lundin Gold's return on equity of 18.30% beat Eldorado Gold's return on equity.
Lundin Gold has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Eldorado Gold. Lundin Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eldorado Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Eldorado Gold pays an annual dividend of C$0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Lundin Gold pays an annual dividend of C$0.55 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Eldorado Gold pays out 4.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lundin Gold pays out 57.3% 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.
Eldorado Gold currently has a consensus price target of C$20.69, indicating a potential downside of 4.89%. Lundin Gold has a consensus price target of C$22.50, indicating a potential upside of 11.72%. Given Lundin Gold's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Lundin Gold is more favorable than Eldorado Gold.
Summary
Lundin Gold beats Eldorado Gold on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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