TFPM vs. RGLD, SSRM, SRL, MSB, CF, SQM, WRK, SUZ, EMN, and AU
Should you be buying Triple Flag Precious Metals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Triple Flag Precious Metals include Royal Gold (RGLD), SSR Mining (SSRM), Scully Royalty (SRL), Mesabi Trust (MSB), CF Industries (CF), Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM), WestRock (WRK), Suzano (SUZ), Eastman Chemical (EMN), and AngloGold Ashanti (AU).
Royal Gold (NASDAQ:RGLD) and Triple Flag Precious Metals (NYSE:TFPM) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, profitability and media sentiment.
Royal Gold currently has a consensus target price of $142.13, indicating a potential upside of 8.95%. Triple Flag Precious Metals has a consensus target price of $18.33, indicating a potential upside of 2.94%. Given Triple Flag Precious Metals' higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Royal Gold is more favorable than Triple Flag Precious Metals.
Royal Gold has higher revenue and earnings than Triple Flag Precious Metals. Royal Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Triple Flag Precious Metals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Royal Gold had 11 more articles in the media than Triple Flag Precious Metals. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Royal Gold and 5 mentions for Triple Flag Precious Metals. Royal Gold's average media sentiment score of 1.51 beat Triple Flag Precious Metals' score of 0.90 indicating that Triple Flag Precious Metals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Royal Gold has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Triple Flag Precious Metals has a beta of -0.12, indicating that its share price is 112% less volatile than the S&P 500.
83.7% of Royal Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.9% of Triple Flag Precious Metals shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Royal Gold shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Royal Gold received 747 more outperform votes than Triple Flag Precious Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.44% of users gave Royal Gold an outperform vote while only 22.22% of users gave Triple Flag Precious Metals an outperform vote.
Royal Gold has a net margin of 38.12% compared to Royal Gold's net margin of 17.59%. Triple Flag Precious Metals' return on equity of 7.96% beat Royal Gold's return on equity.
Royal Gold pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Triple Flag Precious Metals pays an annual dividend of $0.21 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Royal Gold pays out 47.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Triple Flag Precious Metals pays out 110.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Royal Gold has raised its dividend for 24 consecutive years and Triple Flag Precious Metals has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Royal Gold is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Royal Gold beats Triple Flag Precious Metals on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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