WDO vs. SSRM, NG, TXG, CXB, OLA, NGD, SEA, KNT, CG, and OSK
Should you be buying Wesdome Gold Mines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wesdome Gold Mines include SSR Mining (SSRM), 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.
Wesdome Gold Mines (TSE:WDO) and SSR Mining (TSE:SSRM) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and community ranking.
48.7% of Wesdome Gold Mines shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.7% of SSR Mining shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Wesdome Gold Mines shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of SSR Mining shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Wesdome Gold Mines had 7 more articles in the media than SSR Mining. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Wesdome Gold Mines and 3 mentions for SSR Mining. Wesdome Gold Mines' average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat SSR Mining's score of 0.31 indicating that Wesdome Gold Mines is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Wesdome Gold Mines received 308 more outperform votes than SSR Mining when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.52% of users gave SSR Mining an outperform vote while only 64.83% of users gave Wesdome Gold Mines an outperform vote.
Wesdome Gold Mines has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
Wesdome Gold Mines currently has a consensus price target of C$11.43, indicating a potential upside of 2.22%. SSR Mining has a consensus price target of C$10.96, indicating a potential upside of 48.09%. Given SSR Mining's higher possible upside, analysts plainly 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 -6.87%. Wesdome Gold Mines' return on equity of -1.50% beat SSR Mining's return on equity.
Wesdome Gold Mines has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SSR Mining has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Wesdome Gold Mines beats SSR Mining on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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