CEE vs. EQX, IMG, OGC, PRU, SSL, FVI, DPM, SEA, KNT, and CG
Should you be buying Centamin stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Centamin include Equinox Gold (EQX), IAMGOLD (IMG), OceanaGold (OGC), Perseus Mining (PRU), Sandstorm Gold (SSL), Fortuna Silver Mines (FVI), Dundee Precious Metals (DPM), Seabridge Gold (SEA), K92 Mining (KNT), and Centerra Gold (CG). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Equinox Gold (TSE:EQX) and Centamin (TSE:CEE) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.
Centamin received 98 more outperform votes than Equinox Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.98% of users gave Centamin an outperform vote while only 42.11% of users gave Equinox Gold an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Equinox Gold had 16 more articles in the media than Centamin. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Equinox Gold and 1 mentions for Centamin. Centamin's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat Equinox Gold's score of 0.00 indicating that Equinox Gold is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Centamin has a net margin of 10.35% compared to Centamin's net margin of 2.65%. Equinox Gold's return on equity of 14.33% beat Centamin's return on equity.
Centamin has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Equinox Gold. Centamin is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Equinox Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
57.1% of Equinox Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.2% of Centamin shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.2% of Equinox Gold shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Centamin shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Equinox Gold has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Centamin has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Equinox Gold and Centamin tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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