GATO vs. EGO, OR, CDE, IAG, AG, FSM, SAND, CGAU, SA, and SILV
Should you be buying Gatos Silver stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gatos Silver include Eldorado Gold (EGO), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Coeur Mining (CDE), IAMGOLD (IAG), First Majestic Silver (AG), Fortuna Silver Mines (FSM), Sandstorm Gold (SAND), Centerra Gold (CGAU), Seabridge Gold (SA), and SilverCrest Metals (SILV). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
Eldorado Gold (NYSE:EGO) and Gatos Silver (NYSE:GATO) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, profitability and media sentiment.
69.6% of Eldorado Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.8% of Gatos Silver shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Eldorado Gold shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of Gatos Silver shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Eldorado Gold has a net margin of 11.43% compared to Eldorado Gold's net margin of 0.00%. Gatos Silver's return on equity of 4.47% beat Eldorado Gold's return on equity.
Eldorado Gold presently has a consensus price target of $16.33, suggesting a potential upside of 8.56%. Gatos Silver has a consensus price target of $11.40, suggesting a potential upside of 2.61%. Given Gatos Silver's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Eldorado Gold is more favorable than Gatos Silver.
Eldorado Gold received 639 more outperform votes than Gatos Silver when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.85% of users gave Eldorado Gold an outperform vote while only 39.29% of users gave Gatos Silver an outperform vote.
Eldorado Gold has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gatos Silver has a beta of 2.16, suggesting that its share price is 116% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Eldorado Gold has higher revenue and earnings than Gatos Silver. Eldorado Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gatos Silver, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Eldorado Gold had 5 more articles in the media than Gatos Silver. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Eldorado Gold and 2 mentions for Gatos Silver. Gatos Silver's average media sentiment score of 0.32 beat Eldorado Gold's score of 0.20 indicating that Eldorado Gold is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Eldorado Gold beats Gatos Silver on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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