WDO vs. CXB, NGD, OLA, TXG, SEA, KNT, SSRM, CG, DPM, and NG
Should you be buying Wesdome Gold Mines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wesdome Gold Mines include Calibre Mining (CXB), New Gold (NGD), Orla Mining (OLA), Torex Gold Resources (TXG), Seabridge Gold (SEA), K92 Mining (KNT), SSR Mining (SSRM), Centerra Gold (CG), Dundee Precious Metals (DPM), and NovaGold Resources (NG). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Wesdome Gold Mines (TSE:WDO) and Calibre Mining (TSE:CXB) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and media sentiment.
Calibre Mining has higher revenue and earnings than Wesdome Gold Mines. Calibre Mining is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wesdome Gold Mines, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Wesdome Gold Mines presently has a consensus target price of C$11.54, indicating a potential downside of 2.24%. Calibre Mining has a consensus target price of C$2.64, indicating a potential upside of 15.17%. Given Calibre Mining's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Calibre Mining is more favorable than Wesdome Gold Mines.
In the previous week, Wesdome Gold Mines had 3 more articles in the media than Calibre Mining. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Wesdome Gold Mines and 14 mentions for Calibre Mining. Wesdome Gold Mines' average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat Calibre Mining's score of 0.40 indicating that Wesdome Gold Mines is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Calibre Mining has a net margin of 15.14% compared to Wesdome Gold Mines' net margin of 1.36%. Calibre Mining's return on equity of 16.87% beat Wesdome Gold Mines' return on equity.
46.5% of Wesdome Gold Mines shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.3% of Calibre Mining shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Wesdome Gold Mines shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.1% of Calibre Mining shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Wesdome Gold Mines received 499 more outperform votes than Calibre Mining when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.97% of users gave Calibre Mining an outperform vote while only 64.88% of users gave Wesdome Gold Mines an outperform vote.
Wesdome Gold Mines has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Calibre Mining has a beta of 2.07, suggesting that its share price is 107% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Calibre Mining beats Wesdome Gold Mines on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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