GATO vs. TGB, NFGC, DRD, EXK, ARMN, MUX, VZLA, PPTA, SA, and CGAU
Should you be buying Gatos Silver stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gatos Silver include Taseko Mines (TGB), New Found Gold (NFGC), DRDGOLD (DRD), Endeavour Silver (EXK), Aris Mining (ARMN), McEwen Mining (MUX), Vizsla Silver (VZLA), Perpetua Resources (PPTA), Seabridge Gold (SA), and Centerra Gold (CGAU). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
Gatos Silver (NYSE:GATO) and Taseko Mines (NYSE:TGB) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk and dividends.
44.8% of Gatos Silver shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.9% of Taseko Mines shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Gatos Silver shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Taseko Mines shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Taseko Mines has higher revenue and earnings than Gatos Silver. Taseko Mines is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gatos Silver, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gatos Silver presently has a consensus price target of $10.25, suggesting a potential downside of 2.19%. Taseko Mines has a consensus price target of $2.83, suggesting a potential upside of 15.65%. Given Taseko Mines' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Taseko Mines is more favorable than Gatos Silver.
In the previous week, Taseko Mines had 2 more articles in the media than Gatos Silver. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Taseko Mines and 8 mentions for Gatos Silver. Gatos Silver's average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat Taseko Mines' score of 0.05 indicating that Gatos Silver is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Gatos Silver received 7 more outperform votes than Taseko Mines when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 34.62% of users gave Gatos Silver an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave Taseko Mines an outperform vote.
Taseko Mines has a net margin of 17.37% compared to Gatos Silver's net margin of 0.00%. Taseko Mines' return on equity of 11.44% beat Gatos Silver's return on equity.
Gatos Silver has a beta of 2.1, suggesting that its stock price is 110% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Taseko Mines has a beta of 1.91, suggesting that its stock price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Taseko Mines beats Gatos Silver on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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