CG vs. DPM, FVI, KNT, SEA, OLA, TXG, NGD, WDO, OGC, and SSL
Should you be buying Centerra Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Centerra Gold include Dundee Precious Metals (DPM), Fortuna Silver Mines (FVI), K92 Mining (KNT), Seabridge Gold (SEA), Orla Mining (OLA), Torex Gold Resources (TXG), New Gold (NGD), Wesdome Gold Mines (WDO), OceanaGold (OGC), and Sandstorm Gold (SSL). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Dundee Precious Metals (TSE:DPM) and Centerra Gold (TSE:CG) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, dividends, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Dundee Precious Metals has a net margin of 37.10% compared to Dundee Precious Metals' net margin of -7.42%. Centerra Gold's return on equity of 17.22% beat Dundee Precious Metals' return on equity.
Dundee Precious Metals presently has a consensus target price of C$13.69, suggesting a potential upside of 26.74%. Centerra Gold has a consensus target price of C$10.57, suggesting a potential upside of 21.75%. Given Centerra Gold's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Dundee Precious Metals is more favorable than Centerra Gold.
63.9% of Dundee Precious Metals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.9% of Centerra Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Dundee Precious Metals shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Centerra Gold shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Dundee Precious Metals has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Centerra Gold. Centerra Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dundee Precious Metals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Centerra Gold had 15 more articles in the media than Dundee Precious Metals. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Centerra Gold and 9 mentions for Dundee Precious Metals. Centerra Gold's average media sentiment score of 1.37 beat Dundee Precious Metals' score of 0.55 indicating that Dundee Precious Metals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Dundee Precious Metals pays an annual dividend of C$0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Centerra Gold pays an annual dividend of C$0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Dundee Precious Metals pays out 16.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Centerra Gold pays out -53.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Centerra Gold is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Centerra Gold received 30 more outperform votes than Dundee Precious Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.57% of users gave Dundee Precious Metals an outperform vote while only 49.72% of users gave Centerra Gold an outperform vote.
Dundee Precious Metals has a beta of 1.2, indicating that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Centerra Gold has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Dundee Precious Metals beats Centerra Gold on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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