KGC vs. AU, PAAS, AGI, HMY, SBSW, EGO, OR, WPM, GOLD, and AEM
Should you be buying Kinross Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kinross Gold include AngloGold Ashanti (AU), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Alamos Gold (AGI), Harmony Gold Mining (HMY), Sibanye Stillwater (SBSW), Eldorado Gold (EGO), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), Barrick Gold (GOLD), and Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE:AU) and Kinross Gold (NYSE:KGC) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
Kinross Gold received 144 more outperform votes than AngloGold Ashanti when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.79% of users gave Kinross Gold an outperform vote while only 57.40% of users gave AngloGold Ashanti an outperform vote.
Kinross Gold has lower revenue, but higher earnings than AngloGold Ashanti.
36.1% of AngloGold Ashanti shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.7% of Kinross Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Kinross Gold shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Kinross Gold has a net margin of 9.86% compared to Kinross Gold's net margin of 0.00%. AngloGold Ashanti's return on equity of 9.34% beat Kinross Gold's return on equity.
AngloGold Ashanti pays an annual dividend of $0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Kinross Gold pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Kinross Gold pays out 33.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Kinross Gold has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Kinross Gold is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
AngloGold Ashanti has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kinross Gold has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
AngloGold Ashanti currently has a consensus price target of $24.75, suggesting a potential downside of 0.28%. Kinross Gold has a consensus price target of $7.59, suggesting a potential downside of 7.18%. Given Kinross Gold's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe AngloGold Ashanti is more favorable than Kinross Gold.
In the previous week, Kinross Gold had 14 more articles in the media than AngloGold Ashanti. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Kinross Gold and 8 mentions for AngloGold Ashanti. AngloGold Ashanti's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Kinross Gold's score of 0.61 indicating that Kinross Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Kinross Gold beats AngloGold Ashanti on 16 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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