EQX vs. IMG, CEE, PRU, SSL, OGC, FVI, DPM, CG, KNT, and SEA
Should you be buying Equinox Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Equinox Gold include IAMGOLD (IMG), Centamin (CEE), Perseus Mining (PRU), Sandstorm Gold (SSL), OceanaGold (OGC), Fortuna Silver Mines (FVI), Dundee Precious Metals (DPM), Centerra Gold (CG), K92 Mining (KNT), and Seabridge Gold (SEA). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Equinox Gold (TSE:EQX) and IAMGOLD (TSE:IMG) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation and risk.
IAMGOLD received 333 more outperform votes than Equinox Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 52.25% of users gave IAMGOLD an outperform vote while only 42.11% of users gave Equinox Gold an outperform vote.
57.1% of Equinox Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.8% of IAMGOLD shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.2% of Equinox Gold shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of IAMGOLD shares are owned 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.
IAMGOLD has a net margin of 9.55% compared to Equinox Gold's net margin of 2.65%. IAMGOLD's return on equity of 4.36% beat Equinox Gold's return on equity.
IAMGOLD has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Equinox Gold. IAMGOLD is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Equinox Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
IAMGOLD has a consensus price target of C$4.99, indicating a potential downside of 1.50%. Given IAMGOLD's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe IAMGOLD is more favorable than Equinox Gold.
Equinox Gold has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IAMGOLD has a beta of 1.44, suggesting that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, IAMGOLD had 4 more articles in the media than Equinox Gold. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for IAMGOLD and 13 mentions for Equinox Gold. IAMGOLD's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Equinox Gold's score of 0.32 indicating that IAMGOLD is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
IAMGOLD beats Equinox Gold on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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