AEM vs. GOLD, WPM, NEM, AU, KGC, VMC, MLM, DD, LYB, and PPG
Should you be buying Agnico Eagle Mines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Agnico Eagle Mines include Barrick Gold (GOLD), Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), Newmont (NEM), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), Kinross Gold (KGC), Vulcan Materials (VMC), Martin Marietta Materials (MLM), DuPont de Nemours (DD), LyondellBasell Industries (LYB), and PPG Industries (PPG). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Barrick Gold (NYSE:GOLD) and Agnico Eagle Mines (NYSE:AEM) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, dividends and media sentiment.
62.9% of Barrick Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.3% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Barrick Gold shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Barrick Gold presently has a consensus target price of $21.60, suggesting a potential upside of 25.51%. Agnico Eagle Mines has a consensus target price of $72.22, suggesting a potential upside of 5.33%. Given Agnico Eagle Mines' higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Barrick Gold is more favorable than Agnico Eagle Mines.
Barrick Gold pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Agnico Eagle Mines pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Barrick Gold pays out 48.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Agnico Eagle Mines pays out 168.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Barrick Gold received 140 more outperform votes than Agnico Eagle Mines when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.87% of users gave Agnico Eagle Mines an outperform vote while only 56.77% of users gave Barrick Gold an outperform vote.
Barrick Gold has a beta of 0.59, suggesting that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Agnico Eagle Mines has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Agnico Eagle Mines has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Barrick Gold. Barrick Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Agnico Eagle Mines, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Barrick Gold had 1 more articles in the media than Agnico Eagle Mines. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Barrick Gold and 19 mentions for Agnico Eagle Mines. Agnico Eagle Mines' average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Barrick Gold's score of 0.77 indicating that Barrick Gold is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Barrick Gold has a net margin of 12.58% compared to Barrick Gold's net margin of 6.79%. Barrick Gold's return on equity of 6.09% beat Agnico Eagle Mines' return on equity.
Summary
Agnico Eagle Mines beats Barrick Gold on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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