CU vs. YRI, K, AGI, BTO, WFT, SSRM, OR, ASR, ELD, and EQB
Should you be buying Canadian Utilities stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Canadian Utilities include Yamana Gold (YRI), Kinross Gold (K), Alamos Gold (AGI), B2Gold (BTO), West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) (WFT), SSR Mining (SSRM), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Alacer Gold (ASR), Eldorado Gold (ELD), and EQB (EQB). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Canadian Utilities vs.
Yamana Gold (TSE:YRI) and Canadian Utilities (TSE:CU) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
Yamana Gold presently has a consensus price target of C$121.53, suggesting a potential upside of ∞. Canadian Utilities has a consensus price target of C$40.07, suggesting a potential upside of 11.46%. Given Yamana Gold's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Yamana Gold is more favorable than Canadian Utilities.
Canadian Utilities received 80 more outperform votes than Yamana Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.06% of users gave Canadian Utilities an outperform vote while only 51.79% of users gave Yamana Gold an outperform vote.
Canadian Utilities has a net margin of 17.13% compared to Yamana Gold's net margin of -54.36%. Canadian Utilities' return on equity of 9.99% beat Yamana Gold's return on equity.
63.8% of Yamana Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.0% of Canadian Utilities shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Yamana Gold shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Canadian Utilities shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Canadian Utilities had 2 more articles in the media than Yamana Gold. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Canadian Utilities and 0 mentions for Yamana Gold. Yamana Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Canadian Utilities' average media sentiment score.
Yamana Gold pays an annual dividend of C$0.55 per share. Canadian Utilities pays an annual dividend of C$1.79 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Yamana Gold pays out -39.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Canadian Utilities pays out 78.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Yamana Gold has a beta of 1.29, meaning that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Canadian Utilities has a beta of 0.57, meaning that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Canadian Utilities has higher revenue and earnings than Yamana Gold. Yamana Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Canadian Utilities, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Canadian Utilities beats Yamana Gold on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding CU and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of TSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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