IAG vs. AGI, PAAS, HMY, BTG, EGO, OR, SBSW, CDE, SAND, and AG
Should you be buying IAMGOLD stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IAMGOLD include Alamos Gold (AGI), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Harmony Gold Mining (HMY), B2Gold (BTG), Eldorado Gold (EGO), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Sibanye Stillwater (SBSW), Coeur Mining (CDE), Sandstorm Gold (SAND), and First Majestic Silver (AG). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
IAMGOLD (NYSE:IAG) and Alamos Gold (NYSE:AGI) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, valuation, risk, earnings, media sentiment and dividends.
IAMGOLD has a beta of 1.58, suggesting that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alamos Gold has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alamos Gold has a net margin of 17.73% compared to IAMGOLD's net margin of 10.36%. Alamos Gold's return on equity of 8.52% beat IAMGOLD's return on equity.
Alamos Gold has higher revenue and earnings than IAMGOLD. IAMGOLD is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alamos Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
IAMGOLD currently has a consensus price target of $4.33, indicating a potential downside of 10.91%. Alamos Gold has a consensus price target of $23.31, indicating a potential upside of 24.67%. Given Alamos Gold's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Alamos Gold is more favorable than IAMGOLD.
In the previous week, Alamos Gold had 19 more articles in the media than IAMGOLD. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Alamos Gold and 4 mentions for IAMGOLD. IAMGOLD's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Alamos Gold's score of 0.42 indicating that IAMGOLD is being referred to more favorably in the media.
47.1% of IAMGOLD shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.3% of Alamos Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of IAMGOLD shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Alamos Gold shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
IAMGOLD received 208 more outperform votes than Alamos Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.14% of users gave Alamos Gold an outperform vote while only 55.61% of users gave IAMGOLD an outperform vote.
Summary
Alamos Gold beats IAMGOLD on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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