CEE vs. EQX, IMG, OGC, PRU, SSL, FVI, DPM, SEA, KNT, and CG
Should you be buying Centamin stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Centamin include Equinox Gold (EQX), IAMGOLD (IMG), OceanaGold (OGC), Perseus Mining (PRU), Sandstorm Gold (SSL), Fortuna Silver Mines (FVI), Dundee Precious Metals (DPM), Seabridge Gold (SEA), K92 Mining (KNT), and Centerra Gold (CG). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Equinox Gold (TSE:EQX) and Centamin (TSE:CEE) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking and dividends.
In the previous week, Equinox Gold had 17 more articles in the media than Centamin. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Equinox Gold and 1 mentions for Centamin. Centamin's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat Equinox Gold's score of 0.32 indicating that Equinox Gold is being referred to more favorably in the media.
57.1% of Equinox Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.2% of Centamin shares are held by institutional investors. 8.2% of Equinox Gold shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Centamin shares are held by company 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.
Centamin has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Equinox Gold. Centamin is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Equinox Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Centamin has a net margin of 10.35% compared to Centamin's net margin of 2.65%. Equinox Gold's return on equity of 14.33% beat Centamin's return on equity.
Equinox Gold has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Centamin has a beta of 0.56, suggesting that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Centamin received 98 more outperform votes than Equinox Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.98% of users gave Centamin an outperform vote while only 42.11% of users gave Equinox Gold an outperform vote.
Summary
Equinox Gold and Centamin tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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