RGLD vs. TFPM, KGC, CLF, X, ATI, FMC, TX, GGB, AXTA, and PAAS
Should you be buying Royal Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Royal Gold include Triple Flag Precious Metals (TFPM), Kinross Gold (KGC), Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF), United States Steel (X), ATI (ATI), FMC (FMC), Ternium (TX), Gerdau (GGB), Axalta Coating Systems (AXTA), and Pan American Silver (PAAS). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Triple Flag Precious Metals (NYSE:TFPM) and Royal Gold (NASDAQ:RGLD) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
82.9% of Triple Flag Precious Metals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.7% of Royal Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Royal Gold shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Triple Flag Precious Metals pays an annual dividend of $0.21 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Royal Gold pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. 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 pays out 44.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Triple Flag Precious Metals has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Royal Gold has increased its dividend for 24 consecutive years. Royal Gold is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Royal Gold received 745 more outperform votes than Triple Flag Precious Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.45% of users gave Royal Gold an outperform vote while only 23.08% of users gave Triple Flag Precious Metals an outperform vote.
Triple Flag Precious Metals has a beta of -0.12, indicating that its stock price is 112% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Royal Gold has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Royal Gold has a net margin of 39.53% compared to Royal Gold's net margin of 17.78%. Triple Flag Precious Metals' return on equity of 8.18% beat Royal Gold's return on equity.
In the previous week, Royal Gold had 9 more articles in the media than Triple Flag Precious Metals. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Royal Gold and 2 mentions for Triple Flag Precious Metals. Royal Gold's average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat Triple Flag Precious Metals' score of 0.73 indicating that Triple Flag Precious Metals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
Triple Flag Precious Metals currently has a consensus price target of $17.25, suggesting a potential upside of 5.70%. Royal Gold has a consensus price target of $143.75, suggesting a potential upside of 17.55%. Given Triple Flag Precious Metals' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Royal Gold is more favorable than Triple Flag Precious Metals.
Summary
Royal Gold beats Triple Flag Precious Metals on 17 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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