AGI vs. WPM, FNV, K, TNX, PAAS, YRI, WFT, BTO, LUG, and ELD
Should you be buying Alamos Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alamos Gold include Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), Franco-Nevada (FNV), Kinross Gold (K), TRX Gold (TNX), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Yamana Gold (YRI), West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) (WFT), B2Gold (BTO), Lundin Gold (LUG), and Eldorado Gold (ELD). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Alamos Gold (TSE:AGI) and Wheaton Precious Metals (TSE:WPM) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
Alamos Gold has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wheaton Precious Metals has a beta of 0.63, meaning that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Alamos Gold had 3 more articles in the media than Wheaton Precious Metals. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Alamos Gold and 0 mentions for Wheaton Precious Metals. Alamos Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Wheaton Precious Metals' score of 0.00 indicating that Alamos Gold is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Alamos Gold pays an annual dividend of C$0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Wheaton Precious Metals pays an annual dividend of C$0.85 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Alamos Gold pays out 19.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Wheaton Precious Metals pays out 48.0% 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.
Alamos Gold received 592 more outperform votes than Wheaton Precious Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.98% of users gave Alamos Gold an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave Wheaton Precious Metals an outperform vote.
Alamos Gold presently has a consensus target price of C$22.55, indicating a potential upside of 2.59%. Wheaton Precious Metals has a consensus target price of C$84.33, indicating a potential upside of 16.56%. Given Wheaton Precious Metals' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Wheaton Precious Metals is more favorable than Alamos Gold.
Wheaton Precious Metals has higher revenue and earnings than Alamos Gold. Alamos Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wheaton Precious Metals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Wheaton Precious Metals has a net margin of 53.74% compared to Alamos Gold's net margin of 19.41%. Wheaton Precious Metals' return on equity of 8.50% beat Alamos Gold's return on equity.
69.8% of Alamos Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.0% of Wheaton Precious Metals shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Alamos Gold shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Wheaton Precious Metals shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Alamos Gold and Wheaton Precious Metals tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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