DQ vs. CGAU, SA, SLCA, KRO, GPRE, OEC, FSM, PRM, SSRM, and KOP
Should you be buying Daqo New Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Daqo New Energy include Centerra Gold (CGAU), Seabridge Gold (SA), U.S. Silica (SLCA), Kronos Worldwide (KRO), Green Plains (GPRE), Orion (OEC), Fortuna Silver Mines (FSM), Perimeter Solutions (PRM), SSR Mining (SSRM), and Koppers (KOP). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Daqo New Energy (NYSE:DQ) and Centerra Gold (NYSE:CGAU) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
47.2% of Daqo New Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.4% of Centerra Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 24.3% of Daqo New Energy 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 large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Daqo New Energy has a beta of 0.32, meaning that its stock price is 68% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Centerra Gold has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Daqo New Energy had 7 more articles in the media than Centerra Gold. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Daqo New Energy and 13 mentions for Centerra Gold. Centerra Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Daqo New Energy's score of 0.44 indicating that Centerra Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Daqo New Energy received 331 more outperform votes than Centerra Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.73% of users gave Daqo New Energy an outperform vote while only 23.08% of users gave Centerra Gold an outperform vote.
Daqo New Energy presently has a consensus price target of $32.93, indicating a potential upside of 72.93%. Centerra Gold has a consensus price target of $9.55, indicating a potential upside of 57.07%. Given Daqo New Energy's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Daqo New Energy is more favorable than Centerra Gold.
Daqo New Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Centerra Gold. Centerra Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Daqo New Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Daqo New Energy has a net margin of 7.84% compared to Centerra Gold's net margin of -7.43%. Daqo New Energy's return on equity of 2.46% beat Centerra Gold's return on equity.
Summary
Daqo New Energy beats Centerra Gold on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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