EGO vs. AU, KGC, PAAS, AGI, HMY, BTG, OR, SBSW, CDE, and IAG
Should you be buying Eldorado Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eldorado Gold include AngloGold Ashanti (AU), Kinross Gold (KGC), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Alamos Gold (AGI), Harmony Gold Mining (HMY), B2Gold (BTG), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Sibanye Stillwater (SBSW), Coeur Mining (CDE), and IAMGOLD (IAG). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE:AU) and Eldorado Gold (NYSE:EGO) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
AngloGold Ashanti presently has a consensus price target of $24.50, indicating a potential downside of 9.53%. Eldorado Gold has a consensus price target of $16.50, indicating a potential upside of 3.06%. Given AngloGold Ashanti's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Eldorado Gold is more favorable than AngloGold Ashanti.
Eldorado Gold has a net margin of 11.43% compared to Eldorado Gold's net margin of 0.00%. AngloGold Ashanti's return on equity of 4.47% beat Eldorado Gold's return on equity.
AngloGold Ashanti has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eldorado Gold has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Eldorado Gold had 8 more articles in the media than AngloGold Ashanti. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Eldorado Gold and 3 mentions for AngloGold Ashanti. AngloGold Ashanti's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Eldorado Gold's score of 0.73 indicating that Eldorado Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Eldorado Gold received 208 more outperform votes than AngloGold Ashanti when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.76% of users gave Eldorado Gold an outperform vote while only 57.46% of users gave AngloGold Ashanti an outperform vote.
36.1% of AngloGold Ashanti shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.6% of Eldorado Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Eldorado Gold shares are held 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.
Eldorado Gold has lower revenue, but higher earnings than AngloGold Ashanti.
Summary
Eldorado Gold beats AngloGold Ashanti on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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