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 superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
61.7% of Centamin shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.8% of Yamana Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Centamin shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Yamana Gold shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
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.
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, indicating that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yamana Gold has a beta of 1.29, indicating that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
In the previous week, Centamin had 1 more articles in the media than Yamana Gold. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Centamin and 0 mentions for Yamana Gold. Centamin's average media sentiment score of 0.59 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 2.6%. Yamana Gold pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. 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 target price of GBX 150, suggesting a potential upside of 29.98%. Given Centamin's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Centamin is more favorable than Yamana Gold.
Summary
Centamin beats Yamana Gold on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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