SBGL vs. SBSW, EGO, OR, AG, IAG, CDE, SAND, FSM, CGAU, and SA
Should you be buying Sibanye Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sibanye Gold include Sibanye Stillwater (SBSW), Eldorado Gold (EGO), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), First Majestic Silver (AG), IAMGOLD (IAG), Coeur Mining (CDE), Sandstorm Gold (SAND), Fortuna Silver Mines (FSM), Centerra Gold (CGAU), and Seabridge Gold (SA). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Sibanye Gold (NYSE:SBGL) and Sibanye Stillwater (NYSE:SBSW) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, risk, earnings, community ranking and profitability.
Sibanye Gold has a beta of 0.29, meaning that its share price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sibanye Stillwater has a beta of 1.62, meaning that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Sibanye Stillwater had 3 more articles in the media than Sibanye Gold. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Sibanye Stillwater and 0 mentions for Sibanye Gold. Sibanye Stillwater's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat Sibanye Gold's score of 0.00 indicating that Sibanye Stillwater is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
19.2% of Sibanye Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.9% of Sibanye Stillwater shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Sibanye Gold shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Sibanye Stillwater shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Sibanye Gold pays an annual dividend of $0.34 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. Sibanye Stillwater pays an annual dividend of $0.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Sibanye Gold pays out -106.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Sibanye Gold received 287 more outperform votes than Sibanye Stillwater when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.70% of users gave Sibanye Gold an outperform vote while only 50.77% of users gave Sibanye Stillwater an outperform vote.
Sibanye Gold has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Sibanye Stillwater.
Sibanye Stillwater has a consensus price target of $6.00, indicating a potential upside of 21.70%. Given Sibanye Stillwater's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Sibanye Stillwater is more favorable than Sibanye Gold.
Summary
Sibanye Stillwater beats Sibanye Gold on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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