CGAU vs. RGLD, AEM, AGI, BTG, EGO, HL, KGC, PAAS, WPM, and SVM
Should you be buying Centerra Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Centerra Gold include Royal Gold (RGLD), Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM), Alamos Gold (AGI), B2Gold (BTG), Eldorado Gold (EGO), Hecla Mining (HL), Kinross Gold (KGC), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), and Silvercorp Metals (SVM). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Centerra Gold vs. Its Competitors
Royal Gold (NASDAQ:RGLD) and Centerra Gold (NYSE:CGAU) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and risk.
Royal Gold has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Centerra Gold. Royal Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Centerra Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Royal Gold has a beta of 0.41, meaning that its stock price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Centerra Gold has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Royal Gold pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Centerra Gold pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Royal Gold pays out 26.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Centerra Gold pays out 60.6% 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. Royal Gold has increased its dividend for 25 consecutive years.
Royal Gold currently has a consensus price target of $203.00, indicating a potential upside of 0.38%. Centerra Gold has a consensus price target of $12.83, indicating a potential upside of 2.79%. Given Centerra Gold's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Centerra Gold is more favorable than Royal Gold.
83.7% of Royal Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.4% of Centerra Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Royal Gold 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 hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Royal Gold has a net margin of 56.24% compared to Centerra Gold's net margin of 6.21%. Royal Gold's return on equity of 13.30% beat Centerra Gold's return on equity.
In the previous week, Royal Gold had 10 more articles in the media than Centerra Gold. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Royal Gold and 10 mentions for Centerra Gold. Royal Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Centerra Gold's score of 0.57 indicating that Royal Gold is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Royal Gold beats Centerra Gold on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NYSE:CGAU) was last updated on 10/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
