BTG vs. AGI, HMY, PAAS, OR, SBSW, EGO, IAG, AG, SAND, and FSM
Should you be buying B2Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of B2Gold include Alamos Gold (AGI), Harmony Gold Mining (HMY), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Sibanye Stillwater (SBSW), Eldorado Gold (EGO), IAMGOLD (IAG), First Majestic Silver (AG), Sandstorm Gold (SAND), and Fortuna Silver Mines (FSM). These companies are all part of the "precious metals" industry.
B2Gold vs.
B2Gold (NYSE:BTG) and Alamos Gold (NYSE:AGI) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, profitability and risk.
61.4% of B2Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.3% of Alamos Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of B2Gold shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Alamos Gold shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
B2Gold currently has a consensus price target of $4.21, indicating a potential upside of 17.01%. Alamos Gold has a consensus price target of $30.38, indicating a potential upside of 13.15%. Given B2Gold's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe B2Gold is more favorable than Alamos Gold.
Alamos Gold has lower revenue, but higher earnings than B2Gold. B2Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alamos Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
B2Gold has a beta of 0.44, indicating that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alamos Gold has a beta of 0.55, indicating that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Alamos Gold received 409 more outperform votes than B2Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.62% of users gave Alamos Gold an outperform vote while only 38.46% of users gave B2Gold an outperform vote.
Alamos Gold has a net margin of 21.11% compared to B2Gold's net margin of -33.12%. Alamos Gold's return on equity of 10.05% beat B2Gold's return on equity.
B2Gold pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Alamos Gold pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. B2Gold pays out -17.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alamos Gold pays out 16.1% 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. B2Gold is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, B2Gold had 1 more articles in the media than Alamos Gold. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for B2Gold and 0 mentions for Alamos Gold. B2Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Alamos Gold's score of 0.65 indicating that B2Gold is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Alamos Gold beats B2Gold on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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