BTO vs. LUG, ELD, OR, PRU, EQX, IMG, CEE, SSL, OGC, and FVI
Should you be buying B2Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of B2Gold include Lundin Gold (LUG), Eldorado Gold (ELD), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Perseus Mining (PRU), Equinox Gold (EQX), IAMGOLD (IMG), Centamin (CEE), Sandstorm Gold (SSL), OceanaGold (OGC), and Fortuna Silver Mines (FVI). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Lundin Gold (TSE:LUG) and B2Gold (TSE:BTO) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Lundin Gold has higher earnings, but lower revenue than B2Gold. Lundin Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than B2Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lundin Gold has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, B2Gold has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lundin Gold has a net margin of 19.88% compared to Lundin Gold's net margin of 0.52%. B2Gold's return on equity of 19.85% beat Lundin Gold's return on equity.
Lundin Gold currently has a consensus price target of C$22.25, indicating a potential upside of 17.60%. B2Gold has a consensus price target of C$6.10, indicating a potential upside of 72.66%. Given Lundin Gold's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe B2Gold is more favorable than Lundin Gold.
Lundin Gold pays an annual dividend of C$0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. B2Gold pays an annual dividend of C$0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.3%. Lundin Gold pays out 52.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. B2Gold pays out 2,200.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
B2Gold received 633 more outperform votes than Lundin Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.91% of users gave B2Gold an outperform vote while only 61.43% of users gave Lundin Gold an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Lundin Gold had 12 more articles in the media than B2Gold. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Lundin Gold and 9 mentions for B2Gold. Lundin Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat B2Gold's score of 0.70 indicating that B2Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
26.6% of Lundin Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.9% of B2Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 59.5% of Lundin Gold shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of B2Gold shares are owned 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.
Summary
B2Gold beats Lundin Gold on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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