SSL vs. CEE, OGC, FVI, IMG, DPM, CG, KNT, SEA, NGD, and PRU
Should you be buying Sandstorm Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sandstorm Gold include Centamin (CEE), OceanaGold (OGC), Fortuna Silver Mines (FVI), IAMGOLD (IMG), Dundee Precious Metals (DPM), Centerra Gold (CG), K92 Mining (KNT), Seabridge Gold (SEA), New Gold (NGD), and Perseus Mining (PRU). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Centamin (TSE:CEE) and Sandstorm Gold (TSE:SSL) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, dividends and media sentiment.
Centamin has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sandstorm Gold has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Sandstorm Gold had 1 more articles in the media than Centamin. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Sandstorm Gold and 0 mentions for Centamin. Sandstorm Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Centamin'saverage media sentiment score.
Centamin has higher revenue and earnings than Sandstorm Gold. Centamin is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sandstorm Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sandstorm Gold has a net margin of 23.22% compared to Sandstorm Gold's net margin of 10.35%. Sandstorm Gold's return on equity of 14.33% beat Centamin's return on equity.
Centamin pays an annual dividend of C$0.05 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Sandstorm Gold pays an annual dividend of C$0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Centamin pays out 45.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sandstorm Gold pays out 42.1% 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.
61.6% of Centamin shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.6% of Sandstorm Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Centamin shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Sandstorm Gold shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Sandstorm Gold has a consensus target price of C$9.38, suggesting a potential upside of 16.90%. Given Centamin's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Sandstorm Gold is more favorable than Centamin.
Sandstorm Gold received 115 more outperform votes than Centamin when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.16% of users gave Sandstorm Gold an outperform vote while only 62.98% of users gave Centamin an outperform vote.
Summary
Sandstorm Gold beats Centamin on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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