AGI vs. AUY, HL, WPM, FNV, GFI, AU, KGC, PAAS, HMY, and SBSW
Should you be buying Alamos Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alamos Gold include Yamana Gold (AUY), Hecla Mining (HL), Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), Franco-Nevada (FNV), Gold Fields (GFI), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), Kinross Gold (KGC), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Harmony Gold Mining (HMY), and Sibanye Stillwater (SBSW). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Yamana Gold (NYSE:AUY) and Alamos Gold (NYSE:AGI) 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.
Alamos Gold has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Yamana Gold. Yamana Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alamos Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Yamana Gold pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Alamos Gold pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Yamana Gold pays out -11.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alamos Gold pays out 19.2% 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. Yamana Gold is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Alamos Gold had 7 more articles in the media than Yamana Gold. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Alamos Gold and 0 mentions for Yamana Gold. Yamana Gold's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Alamos Gold's score of 0.83 indicating that Alamos Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
58.9% of Yamana Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.3% of Alamos Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Yamana Gold shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Alamos 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.
Yamana Gold has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alamos Gold has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alamos Gold has a net margin of 19.41% compared to Alamos Gold's net margin of -54.35%. Yamana Gold's return on equity of 7.38% beat Alamos Gold's return on equity.
Alamos Gold has a consensus target price of $18.15, suggesting a potential upside of 6.95%. Given Yamana Gold's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Alamos Gold is more favorable than Yamana Gold.
Yamana Gold received 441 more outperform votes than Alamos Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.76% of users gave Yamana Gold an outperform vote while only 55.97% of users gave Alamos Gold an outperform vote.
Summary
Alamos Gold beats Yamana Gold on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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