CEE vs. AGI, YRI, WFT, LUG, BTO, ELD, OR, PRU, EQX, and IMG
Should you be buying Centamin stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Centamin include Alamos Gold (AGI), Yamana Gold (YRI), West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) (WFT), Lundin Gold (LUG), B2Gold (BTO), Eldorado Gold (ELD), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Perseus Mining (PRU), Equinox Gold (EQX), and IAMGOLD (IMG). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Alamos Gold (TSE:AGI) and Centamin (TSE:CEE) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability and community ranking.
69.8% of Alamos Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.8% of Centamin shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Alamos Gold shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Centamin shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Alamos Gold presently has a consensus target price of C$24.95, suggesting a potential upside of 9.29%. Given Centamin's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Alamos Gold is more favorable than Centamin.
Alamos Gold received 483 more outperform votes than Centamin when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.98% of users gave Centamin an outperform vote while only 61.93% of users gave Alamos Gold an outperform vote.
Alamos Gold pays an annual dividend of C$0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Centamin pays an annual dividend of C$0.05 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Alamos Gold pays out 19.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Centamin pays out 45.5% 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.
Alamos Gold has higher revenue and earnings than Centamin. Centamin is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alamos Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Alamos Gold had 10 more articles in the media than Centamin. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Alamos Gold and 3 mentions for Centamin. Alamos Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Centamin's score of 0.24 indicating that Centamin is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Alamos Gold has a net margin of 19.41% compared to Alamos Gold's net margin of 10.35%. Alamos Gold's return on equity of 14.33% beat Centamin's return on equity.
Alamos Gold has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Centamin has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Alamos Gold beats Centamin on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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