IAG vs. CDE, SAND, AG, FSM, CGAU, SA, NFGC, GATO, TGB, and DRD
Should you be buying IAMGOLD stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IAMGOLD include Coeur Mining (CDE), Sandstorm Gold (SAND), First Majestic Silver (AG), Fortuna Silver Mines (FSM), Centerra Gold (CGAU), Seabridge Gold (SA), New Found Gold (NFGC), Gatos Silver (GATO), Taseko Mines (TGB), and DRDGOLD (DRD). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
IAMGOLD (NYSE:IAG) and Coeur Mining (NYSE:CDE) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability and dividends.
IAMGOLD has a beta of 1.7, indicating that its share price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coeur Mining has a beta of 1.82, indicating that its share price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500.
IAMGOLD received 122 more outperform votes than Coeur Mining when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.39% of users gave Coeur Mining an outperform vote while only 56.24% of users gave IAMGOLD an outperform vote.
47.1% of IAMGOLD shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.0% of Coeur Mining shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of IAMGOLD shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Coeur Mining shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
IAMGOLD has a net margin of 9.55% compared to Coeur Mining's net margin of -12.62%. IAMGOLD's return on equity of 1.97% beat Coeur Mining's return on equity.
IAMGOLD has higher revenue and earnings than Coeur Mining. Coeur Mining is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IAMGOLD, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
IAMGOLD currently has a consensus target price of $3.55, indicating a potential downside of 1.93%. Coeur Mining has a consensus target price of $4.21, indicating a potential downside of 8.16%. Given IAMGOLD's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe IAMGOLD is more favorable than Coeur Mining.
In the previous week, IAMGOLD and IAMGOLD both had 12 articles in the media. IAMGOLD's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Coeur Mining's score of 0.70 indicating that IAMGOLD is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
IAMGOLD beats Coeur Mining on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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