WPM vs. ANTO, S32, MNDI, CRDA, AAL, CRH, GLEN, RIO, EDV, and CEY
Should you be buying Wheaton Precious Metals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wheaton Precious Metals include Antofagasta (ANTO), South32 (S32), Mondi (MNDI), Croda International (CRDA), Anglo American (AAL), CRH (CRH), Glencore (GLEN), Rio Tinto Group (RIO), Endeavour Mining (EDV), and Centamin (CEY). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Antofagasta (LON:ANTO) and Wheaton Precious Metals (LON:WPM) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
Wheaton Precious Metals has a net margin of 52.92% compared to Wheaton Precious Metals' net margin of 13.20%. Wheaton Precious Metals' return on equity of 10.97% beat Antofagasta's return on equity.
19.8% of Antofagasta shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.5% of Wheaton Precious Metals shares are owned by institutional investors. 65.5% of Antofagasta shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Wheaton Precious Metals shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Antofagasta has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wheaton Precious Metals has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Antofagasta currently has a consensus target price of GBX 1,710, suggesting a potential downside of 24.80%. Wheaton Precious Metals has a consensus target price of GBX 4,100, suggesting a potential downside of 6.61%. Given Antofagasta's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Wheaton Precious Metals is more favorable than Antofagasta.
Antofagasta has higher revenue and earnings than Wheaton Precious Metals. Antofagasta 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.
Antofagasta pays an annual dividend of GBX 29 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Wheaton Precious Metals pays an annual dividend of GBX 49 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Antofagasta pays out 4,264.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Wheaton Precious Metals pays out 5,212.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Antofagasta is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Antofagasta had 6 more articles in the media than Wheaton Precious Metals. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Antofagasta and 2 mentions for Wheaton Precious Metals. Antofagasta's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Wheaton Precious Metals' score of -0.05 indicating that Wheaton Precious Metals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Antofagasta received 597 more outperform votes than Wheaton Precious Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Wheaton Precious Metals an outperform vote while only 42.32% of users gave Antofagasta an outperform vote.
Summary
Antofagasta beats Wheaton Precious Metals on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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