WDO vs. YRI, WFT, LUG, BTO, ELD, OR, PRU, EQX, ASR, and IMG
Should you be buying Wesdome Gold Mines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wesdome Gold Mines include Yamana Gold (YRI), West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) (WFT), Lundin Gold (LUG), B2Gold (BTO), Eldorado Gold (ELD), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Perseus Mining (PRU), Equinox Gold (EQX), Alacer Gold (ASR), and IAMGOLD (IMG). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Yamana Gold (TSE:YRI) and Wesdome Gold Mines (TSE:WDO) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, risk and dividends.
63.8% of Yamana Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.5% of Wesdome Gold Mines shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Yamana Gold shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Wesdome Gold Mines shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Wesdome Gold Mines has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Yamana Gold. Yamana Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wesdome Gold Mines, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Wesdome Gold Mines has a net margin of 1.36% compared to Wesdome Gold Mines' net margin of -54.36%. Yamana Gold's return on equity of 1.13% beat Wesdome Gold Mines' return on equity.
Yamana Gold has a beta of 1.29, meaning that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wesdome Gold Mines has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Wesdome Gold Mines received 173 more outperform votes than Yamana Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.72% of users gave Wesdome Gold Mines an outperform vote while only 51.79% of users gave Yamana Gold an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Wesdome Gold Mines had 11 more articles in the media than Yamana Gold. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Wesdome Gold Mines and 0 mentions for Yamana Gold. Yamana Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat Wesdome Gold Mines' score of 0.00 indicating that Wesdome Gold Mines is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Wesdome Gold Mines has a consensus price target of C$13.02, suggesting a potential upside of 1.73%.
Summary
Wesdome Gold Mines beats Yamana Gold on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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