NGD vs. LUG, PAAS, YRI, EDV, OR, WFT, PRU, IMG, BTO, and ELD
Should you be buying New Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of New Gold include Lundin Gold (LUG), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Yamana Gold (YRI), Endeavour Mining (EDV), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) (WFT), Perseus Mining (PRU), IAMGOLD (IMG), B2Gold (BTO), and Eldorado Gold (ELD). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
New Gold vs.
New Gold (TSE:NGD) and Lundin Gold (TSE:LUG) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, earnings, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment and risk.
New Gold has a beta of 1.59, meaning that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lundin Gold has a beta of 1.23, meaning that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
New Gold received 38 more outperform votes than Lundin Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.93% of users gave Lundin Gold an outperform vote while only 41.46% of users gave New Gold an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Lundin Gold had 9 more articles in the media than New Gold. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Lundin Gold and 5 mentions for New Gold. Lundin Gold's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat New Gold's score of 0.71 indicating that Lundin Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lundin Gold has a net margin of 29.56% compared to New Gold's net margin of 2.33%. Lundin Gold's return on equity of 29.88% beat New Gold's return on equity.
61.8% of New Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.8% of Lundin Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.9% of New Gold shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 58.7% of Lundin Gold shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
New Gold currently has a consensus price target of C$4.34, suggesting a potential downside of 18.42%. Lundin Gold has a consensus price target of C$42.20, suggesting a potential downside of 23.17%. Given New Gold's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe New Gold is more favorable than Lundin Gold.
Lundin Gold has higher revenue and earnings than New Gold. Lundin Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than New Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Lundin Gold beats New Gold on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:NGD) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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