CGAU vs. FSM, SAND, SA, SILV, AG, IAG, EXK, TGB, CDE, and GATO
Should you be buying Centerra Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Centerra Gold include Fortuna Silver Mines (FSM), Sandstorm Gold (SAND), Seabridge Gold (SA), SilverCrest Metals (SILV), First Majestic Silver (AG), IAMGOLD (IAG), Endeavour Silver (EXK), Taseko Mines (TGB), Coeur Mining (CDE), and Gatos Silver (GATO). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
Fortuna Silver Mines (NYSE:FSM) and Centerra Gold (NYSE:CGAU) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, community ranking and dividends.
Fortuna Silver Mines has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Centerra Gold has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
33.8% of Fortuna Silver Mines shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.4% of Centerra Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Fortuna Silver Mines 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.
Fortuna Silver Mines received 320 more outperform votes than Centerra Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.47% of users gave Fortuna Silver Mines an outperform vote while only 24.05% of users gave Centerra Gold an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Centerra Gold had 2 more articles in the media than Fortuna Silver Mines. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Centerra Gold and 6 mentions for Fortuna Silver Mines. Fortuna Silver Mines' average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Centerra Gold's score of 0.70 indicating that Centerra Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Fortuna Silver Mines presently has a consensus target price of $8.25, suggesting a potential upside of 35.69%. Centerra Gold has a consensus target price of $9.30, suggesting a potential upside of 32.48%. Given Centerra Gold's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Fortuna Silver Mines is more favorable than Centerra Gold.
Centerra Gold has a net margin of 4.99% compared to Centerra Gold's net margin of -3.94%. Centerra Gold's return on equity of 6.04% beat Fortuna Silver Mines' return on equity.
Fortuna Silver Mines has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Centerra Gold. Fortuna Silver Mines is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Centerra Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Centerra Gold beats Fortuna Silver Mines on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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