PPTA vs. CGAU, SA, SILV, EXK, TGB, GATO, DRD, NFGC, ARMN, and MUX
Should you be buying Perpetua Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Perpetua Resources include Centerra Gold (CGAU), Seabridge Gold (SA), SilverCrest Metals (SILV), Endeavour Silver (EXK), Taseko Mines (TGB), Gatos Silver (GATO), DRDGOLD (DRD), New Found Gold (NFGC), Aris Mining (ARMN), and McEwen Mining (MUX). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
Perpetua Resources (NASDAQ:PPTA) and Centerra Gold (NYSE:CGAU) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, risk, valuation and media sentiment.
Perpetua Resources has a beta of 0.22, indicating that its stock price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Centerra Gold has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Centerra Gold received 3 more outperform votes than Perpetua Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.00% of users gave Perpetua Resources an outperform vote while only 24.05% of users gave Centerra Gold an outperform vote.
70.1% of Perpetua Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.4% of Centerra Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of Perpetua Resources shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Centerra Gold shares are owned by company 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.
Centerra Gold has a net margin of 4.99% compared to Perpetua Resources' net margin of 0.00%. Centerra Gold's return on equity of 5.61% beat Perpetua Resources' return on equity.
Perpetua Resources has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Centerra Gold. Perpetua Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Centerra Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Perpetua Resources presently has a consensus target price of $11.63, suggesting a potential upside of 88.11%. Centerra Gold has a consensus target price of $9.30, suggesting a potential upside of 29.89%. Given Perpetua Resources' higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Perpetua Resources is more favorable than Centerra Gold.
In the previous week, Centerra Gold had 6 more articles in the media than Perpetua Resources. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Centerra Gold and 2 mentions for Perpetua Resources. Perpetua Resources' average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat Centerra Gold's score of 0.74 indicating that Perpetua Resources is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Centerra Gold beats Perpetua Resources on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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