ELD vs. OR, LUG, BTO, EQX, PRU, IMG, CEE, SSL, OGC, and FVI
Should you be buying Eldorado Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eldorado Gold include Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Lundin Gold (LUG), B2Gold (BTO), Equinox Gold (EQX), Perseus Mining (PRU), IAMGOLD (IMG), Centamin (CEE), Sandstorm Gold (SSL), OceanaGold (OGC), and Fortuna Silver Mines (FVI). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Osisko Gold Royalties (TSE:OR) and Eldorado Gold (TSE:ELD) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, earnings and risk.
Osisko Gold Royalties pays an annual dividend of C$0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Eldorado Gold pays an annual dividend of C$0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Osisko Gold Royalties pays out -82.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Eldorado Gold pays out 4.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Osisko Gold Royalties is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Osisko Gold Royalties has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eldorado Gold has a beta of 1.23, indicating that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
70.7% of Osisko Gold Royalties shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.7% of Eldorado Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Osisko Gold Royalties shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Eldorado Gold shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Osisko Gold Royalties had 7 more articles in the media than Eldorado Gold. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Osisko Gold Royalties and 6 mentions for Eldorado Gold. Osisko Gold Royalties' average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Eldorado Gold's score of 0.54 indicating that Eldorado Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Eldorado Gold has a net margin of 11.45% compared to Eldorado Gold's net margin of -21.78%. Osisko Gold Royalties' return on equity of 3.56% beat Eldorado Gold's return on equity.
Eldorado Gold has higher revenue and earnings than Osisko Gold Royalties. Osisko Gold Royalties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eldorado Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Eldorado Gold received 263 more outperform votes than Osisko Gold Royalties when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.03% of users gave Osisko Gold Royalties an outperform vote while only 61.73% of users gave Eldorado Gold an outperform vote.
Osisko Gold Royalties currently has a consensus price target of C$26.56, suggesting a potential upside of 17.24%. Eldorado Gold has a consensus price target of C$20.69, suggesting a potential downside of 6.14%. Given Eldorado Gold's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Osisko Gold Royalties is more favorable than Eldorado Gold.
Summary
Eldorado Gold beats Osisko Gold Royalties on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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