EQX vs. PRU, IMG, CEE, SSL, OGC, FVI, DPM, CG, KNT, and SEA
Should you be buying Equinox Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Equinox Gold include Perseus Mining (PRU), IAMGOLD (IMG), Centamin (CEE), Sandstorm Gold (SSL), OceanaGold (OGC), Fortuna Silver Mines (FVI), Dundee Precious Metals (DPM), Centerra Gold (CG), K92 Mining (KNT), and Seabridge Gold (SEA). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Equinox Gold (TSE:EQX) and Perseus Mining (TSE:PRU) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings and dividends.
Equinox Gold has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Perseus Mining has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Perseus Mining received 85 more outperform votes than Equinox Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.80% of users gave Perseus Mining an outperform vote while only 41.03% of users gave Equinox Gold an outperform vote.
Perseus Mining has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Equinox Gold. Equinox Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Perseus Mining, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Perseus Mining had 1 more articles in the media than Equinox Gold. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Perseus Mining and 0 mentions for Equinox Gold. Equinox Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.09 beat Perseus Mining's score of 0.00 indicating that Equinox Gold is being referred to more favorably in the media.
49.4% of Equinox Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.4% of Perseus Mining shares are held by institutional investors. 7.2% of Equinox Gold shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Perseus Mining shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Perseus Mining has a net margin of 31.06% compared to Equinox Gold's net margin of -2.86%. Perseus Mining's return on equity of 24.92% beat Equinox Gold's return on equity.
Summary
Perseus Mining beats Equinox Gold on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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