RGLD vs. NEM, TFPM, SSRM, SRL, MSB, AEM, LYB, PPG, GOLD, and NTR
Should you be buying Royal Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Royal Gold include Newmont (NEM), Triple Flag Precious Metals (TFPM), SSR Mining (SSRM), Scully Royalty (SRL), Mesabi Trust (MSB), Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM), LyondellBasell Industries (LYB), PPG Industries (PPG), Barrick Gold (GOLD), and Nutrien (NTR).
Newmont (NYSE:NEM) and Royal Gold (NASDAQ:RGLD) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability and valuation.
Royal Gold has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Newmont. Newmont is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Royal Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Newmont had 11 more articles in the media than Royal Gold. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Newmont and 7 mentions for Royal Gold. Newmont's average media sentiment score of 1.60 beat Royal Gold's score of 0.76 indicating that Royal Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Royal Gold has a net margin of 38.12% compared to Royal Gold's net margin of -20.19%. Newmont's return on equity of 7.96% beat Royal Gold's return on equity.
Newmont received 155 more outperform votes than Royal Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.44% of users gave Royal Gold an outperform vote while only 63.28% of users gave Newmont an outperform vote.
Newmont presently has a consensus price target of $48.36, suggesting a potential upside of 19.81%. Royal Gold has a consensus price target of $143.86, suggesting a potential upside of 16.30%. Given Royal Gold's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Newmont is more favorable than Royal Gold.
68.9% of Newmont shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.7% of Royal Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Newmont shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Royal Gold shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Newmont pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Royal Gold pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Newmont pays out -37.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Royal Gold pays out 47.2% 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. Royal Gold has raised its dividend for 24 consecutive years. Newmont is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Newmont has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Royal Gold has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Royal Gold beats Newmont on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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