BTO vs. LUG, OR, ELD, PRU, EQX, CEE, PAAS, IMG, SSL, and OGC
Should you be buying B2Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of B2Gold include Lundin Gold (LUG), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Eldorado Gold (ELD), Perseus Mining (PRU), Equinox Gold (EQX), Centamin (CEE), Pan American Silver (PAAS), IAMGOLD (IMG), Sandstorm Gold (SSL), and OceanaGold (OGC). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Lundin Gold (TSE:LUG) and B2Gold (TSE:BTO) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and valuation.
In the previous week, Lundin Gold had 3 more articles in the media than B2Gold. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Lundin Gold and 2 mentions for B2Gold. Lundin Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat B2Gold's score of 0.16 indicating that B2Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lundin Gold has higher earnings, but lower revenue than B2Gold. Lundin Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than B2Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lundin Gold has a net margin of 19.88% compared to Lundin Gold's net margin of 0.52%. B2Gold's return on equity of 19.85% beat Lundin Gold's return on equity.
26.7% of Lundin Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.8% of B2Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 59.4% of Lundin Gold shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of B2Gold shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Lundin Gold pays an annual dividend of C$0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. B2Gold pays an annual dividend of C$0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. Lundin Gold pays out 52.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. B2Gold pays out 2,200.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Lundin Gold has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, B2Gold has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
B2Gold received 634 more outperform votes than Lundin Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 81.04% of users gave B2Gold an outperform vote while only 62.43% of users gave Lundin Gold an outperform vote.
Lundin Gold presently has a consensus price target of C$19.60, suggesting a potential upside of 3.76%. B2Gold has a consensus price target of C$6.02, suggesting a potential upside of 75.06%. Given Lundin Gold's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe B2Gold is more favorable than Lundin Gold.
Summary
B2Gold beats Lundin Gold on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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