BTG vs. GFI, AU, KGC, PAAS, AGI, HMY, SBSW, EGO, OR, and CDE
Should you be buying B2Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of B2Gold include Gold Fields (GFI), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), Kinross Gold (KGC), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Alamos Gold (AGI), Harmony Gold Mining (HMY), Sibanye Stillwater (SBSW), Eldorado Gold (EGO), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), and Coeur Mining (CDE). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
B2Gold (NYSE:BTG) and Gold Fields (NYSE:GFI) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and dividends.
B2Gold has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gold Fields has a beta of 1.13, indicating that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
B2Gold pays an annual dividend of $0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.7%. Gold Fields pays an annual dividend of $0.35 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. B2Gold pays out -533.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Gold Fields has a net margin of 0.00% compared to B2Gold's net margin of -2.10%. B2Gold's return on equity of 8.05% beat Gold Fields' return on equity.
Gold Fields received 181 more outperform votes than B2Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave B2Gold an outperform vote while only 53.98% of users gave Gold Fields an outperform vote.
Gold Fields has a consensus price target of $16.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1.59%. Given Gold Fields' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Gold Fields is more favorable than B2Gold.
Gold Fields has higher revenue and earnings than B2Gold.
In the previous week, Gold Fields had 4 more articles in the media than B2Gold. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Gold Fields and 2 mentions for B2Gold. Gold Fields' average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat B2Gold's score of 0.33 indicating that Gold Fields is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
61.4% of B2Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.0% of Gold Fields shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of B2Gold shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 36.8% of Gold Fields shares are held 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.
Summary
Gold Fields beats B2Gold on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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