SSRM vs. WDO, NG, TXG, CXB, OLA, NGD, SEA, KNT, CG, and OSK
Should you be buying SSR Mining stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SSR Mining include Wesdome Gold Mines (WDO), NovaGold Resources (NG), Torex Gold Resources (TXG), Calibre Mining (CXB), Orla Mining (OLA), New Gold (NGD), Seabridge Gold (SEA), K92 Mining (KNT), Centerra Gold (CG), and Osisko Mining (OSK). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
SSR Mining (TSE:SSRM) and Wesdome Gold Mines (TSE:WDO) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, valuation and profitability.
SSR Mining has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wesdome Gold Mines has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
66.2% of SSR Mining shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.7% of Wesdome Gold Mines shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of SSR Mining shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Wesdome Gold Mines shares are held 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.
Wesdome Gold Mines received 309 more outperform votes than SSR Mining when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.52% of users gave SSR Mining an outperform vote while only 64.88% of users gave Wesdome Gold Mines an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Wesdome Gold Mines had 17 more articles in the media than SSR Mining. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Wesdome Gold Mines and 2 mentions for SSR Mining. SSR Mining's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat Wesdome Gold Mines' score of 0.47 indicating that SSR Mining is being referred to more favorably in the media.
SSR Mining presently has a consensus price target of C$10.96, indicating a potential upside of 47.89%. Wesdome Gold Mines has a consensus price target of C$11.54, indicating a potential upside of 1.55%. Given SSR Mining's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe SSR Mining is more favorable than Wesdome Gold Mines.
Wesdome Gold Mines has a net margin of -1.86% compared to SSR Mining's net margin of -30.90%. Wesdome Gold Mines' return on equity of -1.50% beat SSR Mining's return on equity.
Wesdome Gold Mines has lower revenue, but higher earnings than SSR Mining. Wesdome Gold Mines is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SSR Mining, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Wesdome Gold Mines beats SSR Mining on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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