IMG vs. EQX, PRU, CEE, SSL, FVI, OGC, CG, DPM, NGD, and OLA
Should you be buying IAMGOLD stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IAMGOLD include Equinox Gold (EQX), Perseus Mining (PRU), Centamin (CEE), Sandstorm Gold (SSL), Fortuna Silver Mines (FVI), OceanaGold (OGC), Centerra Gold (CG), Dundee Precious Metals (DPM), New Gold (NGD), and Orla Mining (OLA). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Equinox Gold (TSE:EQX) and IAMGOLD (TSE:IMG) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, profitability, valuation and risk.
Equinox Gold has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IAMGOLD has a beta of 1.51, suggesting that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.
IAMGOLD has a net margin of 12.48% compared to IAMGOLD's net margin of -2.86%. Equinox Gold's return on equity of 6.57% beat IAMGOLD's return on equity.
In the previous week, IAMGOLD had 12 more articles in the media than Equinox Gold. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for IAMGOLD and 0 mentions for Equinox Gold. Equinox Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat IAMGOLD's score of 0.00 indicating that IAMGOLD is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
45.5% of Equinox Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.3% of IAMGOLD shares are held by institutional investors. 6.5% of Equinox Gold shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of IAMGOLD shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
IAMGOLD received 333 more outperform votes than Equinox Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 52.17% of users gave IAMGOLD an outperform vote while only 41.03% of users gave Equinox Gold an outperform vote.
Equinox Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IAMGOLD, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
IAMGOLD has a consensus price target of C$5.03, indicating a potential downside of 10.11%. Given Equinox Gold's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe IAMGOLD is more favorable than Equinox Gold.
Summary
IAMGOLD beats Equinox Gold on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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