AU vs. AEM, GOLD, WPM, FNV, GFI, KGC, PAAS, AGI, HMY, and BTG
Should you be buying AngloGold Ashanti stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AngloGold Ashanti include Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM), Barrick Gold (GOLD), Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), Franco-Nevada (FNV), Gold Fields (GFI), Kinross Gold (KGC), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Alamos Gold (AGI), Harmony Gold Mining (HMY), and B2Gold (BTG). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE:AU) and Agnico Eagle Mines (NYSE:AEM) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings, valuation and dividends.
Agnico Eagle Mines has higher revenue and earnings than AngloGold Ashanti.
AngloGold Ashanti has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Agnico Eagle Mines has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
AngloGold Ashanti currently has a consensus price target of $24.75, suggesting a potential upside of 0.61%. Agnico Eagle Mines has a consensus price target of $72.22, suggesting a potential upside of 5.13%. Given Agnico Eagle Mines' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Agnico Eagle Mines is more favorable than AngloGold Ashanti.
Agnico Eagle Mines received 198 more outperform votes than AngloGold Ashanti when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.87% of users gave Agnico Eagle Mines an outperform vote while only 57.40% of users gave AngloGold Ashanti an outperform vote.
Agnico Eagle Mines has a net margin of 6.79% compared to AngloGold Ashanti's net margin of 0.00%. Agnico Eagle Mines' return on equity of 6.09% beat AngloGold Ashanti's return on equity.
36.1% of AngloGold Ashanti shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.3% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Agnico Eagle Mines had 5 more articles in the media than AngloGold Ashanti. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Agnico Eagle Mines and 2 mentions for AngloGold Ashanti. Agnico Eagle Mines' average media sentiment score of 1.31 beat AngloGold Ashanti's score of 1.11 indicating that Agnico Eagle Mines is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
AngloGold Ashanti pays an annual dividend of $0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Agnico Eagle Mines pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Agnico Eagle Mines pays out 168.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
Agnico Eagle Mines beats AngloGold Ashanti on 17 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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