HMY vs. GFI, AU, KGC, PAAS, AGI, BTG, EGO, SBSW, OR, and CDE
Should you be buying Harmony Gold Mining stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Harmony Gold Mining include Gold Fields (GFI), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), Kinross Gold (KGC), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Alamos Gold (AGI), B2Gold (BTG), Eldorado Gold (EGO), Sibanye Stillwater (SBSW), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), and Coeur Mining (CDE). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
Gold Fields (NYSE:GFI) and Harmony Gold Mining (NYSE:HMY) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
Harmony Gold Mining received 117 more outperform votes than Gold Fields when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 53.98% of users gave Gold Fields an outperform vote while only 46.37% of users gave Harmony Gold Mining an outperform vote.
Gold Fields currently has a consensus target price of $16.00, suggesting a potential upside of 3.06%. Harmony Gold Mining has a consensus target price of $5.80, suggesting a potential downside of 29.65%. Given Harmony Gold Mining's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Gold Fields is more favorable than Harmony Gold Mining.
26.0% of Gold Fields shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.8% of Harmony Gold Mining shares are held by institutional investors. 36.8% of Gold Fields shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.0% of Harmony Gold Mining shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Gold Fields pays an annual dividend of $0.35 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Harmony Gold Mining pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Gold Fields has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Harmony Gold Mining has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Harmony Gold Mining had 3 more articles in the media than Gold Fields. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Harmony Gold Mining and 3 mentions for Gold Fields. Gold Fields' average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat Harmony Gold Mining's score of 0.94 indicating that Harmony Gold Mining is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Gold Fields has higher revenue and earnings than Harmony Gold Mining.
Gold Fields has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Harmony Gold Mining has a beta of 1.74, suggesting that its stock price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Gold Fields beats Harmony Gold Mining on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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