CGAU vs. FSM, SAND, CDE, IAG, TGB, AG, NFGC, DRD, GATO, and EXK
Should you be buying Centerra Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Centerra Gold include Fortuna Silver Mines (FSM), Sandstorm Gold (SAND), Coeur Mining (CDE), IAMGOLD (IAG), Taseko Mines (TGB), First Majestic Silver (AG), New Found Gold (NFGC), DRDGOLD (DRD), Gatos Silver (GATO), and Endeavour Silver (EXK). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
Centerra Gold (NYSE:CGAU) and Fortuna Silver Mines (NYSE:FSM) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, profitability and risk.
Fortuna Silver Mines received 320 more outperform votes than Centerra Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.48% of users gave Fortuna Silver Mines an outperform vote while only 23.08% of users gave Centerra Gold an outperform vote.
Centerra Gold currently has a consensus price target of $9.55, indicating a potential upside of 46.92%. Fortuna Silver Mines has a consensus price target of $7.63, indicating a potential upside of 54.67%. Given Fortuna Silver Mines' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Fortuna Silver Mines is more favorable than Centerra Gold.
Centerra Gold has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fortuna Silver Mines has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Fortuna Silver Mines has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Centerra Gold. Fortuna Silver Mines is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Centerra Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Fortuna Silver Mines has a net margin of -5.99% compared to Centerra Gold's net margin of -7.43%. Fortuna Silver Mines' return on equity of 5.03% beat Centerra Gold's return on equity.
In the previous week, Fortuna Silver Mines had 4 more articles in the media than Centerra Gold. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Fortuna Silver Mines and 3 mentions for Centerra Gold. Centerra Gold's average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat Fortuna Silver Mines' score of 0.54 indicating that Centerra Gold is being referred to more favorably in the media.
55.4% of Centerra Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.8% of Fortuna Silver Mines shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Centerra Gold shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Fortuna Silver Mines shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Fortuna Silver Mines beats Centerra Gold on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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