WDO vs. FVI, KNT, NGD, SEA, OLA, TXG, NG, CG, CXB, and SSRM
Should you be buying Wesdome Gold Mines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wesdome Gold Mines include Fortuna Silver Mines (FVI), K92 Mining (KNT), New Gold (NGD), Seabridge Gold (SEA), Orla Mining (OLA), Torex Gold Resources (TXG), NovaGold Resources (NG), Centerra Gold (CG), Calibre Mining (CXB), and SSR Mining (SSRM). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Wesdome Gold Mines (TSE:WDO) and Fortuna Silver Mines (TSE:FVI) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership and valuation.
Wesdome Gold Mines currently has a consensus price target of C$9.56, indicating a potential downside of 5.23%. Fortuna Silver Mines has a consensus price target of C$5.70, indicating a potential upside of 13.32%. Given Fortuna Silver Mines' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Fortuna Silver Mines is more favorable than Wesdome Gold Mines.
Wesdome Gold Mines received 280 more outperform votes than Fortuna Silver Mines when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.11% of users gave Wesdome Gold Mines an outperform vote while only 51.52% of users gave Fortuna Silver Mines an outperform vote.
Wesdome Gold Mines has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Fortuna Silver Mines. Wesdome Gold Mines is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fortuna Silver Mines, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Wesdome Gold Mines has a beta of 0.73, meaning that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fortuna Silver Mines has a beta of 1.55, meaning that its stock price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Wesdome Gold Mines has a net margin of -1.86% compared to Fortuna Silver Mines' net margin of -6.03%. Wesdome Gold Mines' return on equity of -1.50% beat Fortuna Silver Mines' return on equity.
52.4% of Wesdome Gold Mines shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.5% of Fortuna Silver Mines shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Wesdome Gold Mines shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Fortuna Silver Mines shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Fortuna Silver Mines had 2 more articles in the media than Wesdome Gold Mines. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Fortuna Silver Mines and 0 mentions for Wesdome Gold Mines. Fortuna Silver Mines' average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Wesdome Gold Mines' score of 0.00 indicating that Fortuna Silver Mines is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Wesdome Gold Mines beats Fortuna Silver Mines on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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