SAND vs. AGI, HMY, BTG, EGO, SBSW, OR, CDE, IAG, AG, and FSM
Should you be buying Sandstorm Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sandstorm Gold include Alamos Gold (AGI), Harmony Gold Mining (HMY), B2Gold (BTG), Eldorado Gold (EGO), Sibanye Stillwater (SBSW), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Coeur Mining (CDE), IAMGOLD (IAG), First Majestic Silver (AG), and Fortuna Silver Mines (FSM). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
Sandstorm Gold (NYSE:SAND) and Alamos Gold (NYSE:AGI) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and risk.
Alamos Gold received 360 more outperform votes than Sandstorm Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.97% of users gave Alamos Gold an outperform vote while only 42.57% of users gave Sandstorm Gold an outperform vote.
52.0% of Sandstorm Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.3% of Alamos Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Sandstorm Gold shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Alamos Gold shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Alamos Gold had 7 more articles in the media than Sandstorm Gold. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Alamos Gold and 2 mentions for Sandstorm Gold. Sandstorm Gold's average media sentiment score of 1.73 beat Alamos Gold's score of 1.00 indicating that Sandstorm Gold is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sandstorm Gold currently has a consensus price target of $11.05, indicating a potential upside of 103.50%. Alamos Gold has a consensus price target of $18.15, indicating a potential upside of 12.18%. Given Sandstorm Gold's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Sandstorm Gold is more favorable than Alamos Gold.
Alamos Gold has higher revenue and earnings than Sandstorm Gold. Alamos Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sandstorm Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sandstorm Gold pays an annual dividend of $0.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Alamos Gold pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Sandstorm Gold pays out 75.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Alamos Gold pays out 19.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Sandstorm Gold has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alamos Gold has a beta of 1.23, suggesting that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alamos Gold has a net margin of 19.41% compared to Sandstorm Gold's net margin of 12.24%. Alamos Gold's return on equity of 7.38% beat Sandstorm Gold's return on equity.
Summary
Alamos Gold beats Sandstorm Gold on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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