IAG vs. CDE, SAND, AG, FSM, CGAU, TGB, NFGC, DRD, OR, and GATO
Should you be buying IAMGOLD stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IAMGOLD include Coeur Mining (CDE), Sandstorm Gold (SAND), First Majestic Silver (AG), Fortuna Silver Mines (FSM), Centerra Gold (CGAU), Taseko Mines (TGB), New Found Gold (NFGC), DRDGOLD (DRD), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), and Gatos Silver (GATO). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
Coeur Mining (NYSE:CDE) and IAMGOLD (NYSE:IAG) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
In the previous week, Coeur Mining had 19 more articles in the media than IAMGOLD. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Coeur Mining and 1 mentions for IAMGOLD. Coeur Mining's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat IAMGOLD's score of 0.52 indicating that IAMGOLD is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
IAMGOLD has higher revenue and earnings than Coeur Mining. Coeur Mining is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IAMGOLD, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
63.0% of Coeur Mining shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.1% of IAMGOLD shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of Coeur Mining shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of IAMGOLD 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.
IAMGOLD has a net margin of 9.55% compared to IAMGOLD's net margin of -12.77%. Coeur Mining's return on equity of 1.97% beat IAMGOLD's return on equity.
Coeur Mining has a beta of 1.77, suggesting that its stock price is 77% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IAMGOLD has a beta of 1.68, suggesting that its stock price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Coeur Mining presently has a consensus price target of $4.36, suggesting a potential downside of 14.54%. IAMGOLD has a consensus price target of $3.55, suggesting a potential downside of 5.84%. Given Coeur Mining's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe IAMGOLD is more favorable than Coeur Mining.
IAMGOLD received 121 more outperform votes than Coeur Mining when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.44% of users gave Coeur Mining an outperform vote while only 56.24% of users gave IAMGOLD an outperform vote.
Summary
IAMGOLD beats Coeur Mining on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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