EQX vs. PRU, IMG, CEE, SSL, FVI, OGC, CG, DPM, NGD, and OLA
Should you be buying Equinox Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Equinox Gold include Perseus Mining (PRU), IAMGOLD (IMG), 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.
Perseus Mining (TSE:PRU) and Equinox Gold (TSE:EQX) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Perseus Mining had 8 more articles in the media than Equinox Gold. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Perseus Mining and 0 mentions for Equinox Gold. Equinox Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Perseus Mining's score of 0.00 indicating that Perseus Mining is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Perseus Mining has a net margin of 31.06% compared to Perseus Mining's net margin of -2.86%. Equinox Gold's return on equity of 24.92% beat Perseus Mining's return on equity.
Perseus Mining received 85 more outperform votes than Equinox Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.80% of users gave Perseus Mining an outperform vote while only 41.03% of users gave Equinox Gold an outperform vote.
Perseus Mining has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Equinox Gold. Equinox Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Perseus Mining, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
68.4% of Perseus Mining shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.5% of Equinox Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Perseus Mining shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.5% of Equinox Gold shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Perseus Mining has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Equinox Gold has a beta of 1.09, meaning that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Perseus Mining beats Equinox Gold on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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