HMY vs. AGI, PAAS, SBSW, KGC, EGO, OR, AG, AU, CDE, and IAG
Should you be buying Harmony Gold Mining stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Harmony Gold Mining include Alamos Gold (AGI), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Sibanye Stillwater (SBSW), Kinross Gold (KGC), Eldorado Gold (EGO), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), First Majestic Silver (AG), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), Coeur Mining (CDE), and IAMGOLD (IAG). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
Alamos Gold (NYSE:AGI) and Harmony Gold Mining (NYSE:HMY) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and community ranking.
Alamos Gold has a net margin of 19.41% compared to Alamos Gold's net margin of 0.00%. Harmony Gold Mining's return on equity of 7.38% beat Alamos Gold's return on equity.
Alamos Gold pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Harmony Gold Mining pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Alamos Gold pays out 19.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Harmony Gold Mining pays out 10.5% 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. Harmony Gold Mining has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Harmony Gold Mining is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
64.3% of Alamos Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.8% of Harmony Gold Mining shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Alamos Gold shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 16.0% of Harmony Gold Mining shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Alamos Gold has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Harmony Gold Mining has a beta of 1.71, suggesting that its share price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Harmony Gold Mining has higher revenue and earnings than Alamos Gold. Harmony Gold Mining is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alamos Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alamos Gold presently has a consensus price target of $18.15, suggesting a potential upside of 23.47%. Harmony Gold Mining has a consensus price target of $4.90, suggesting a potential downside of 42.76%. Given Harmony Gold Mining's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Alamos Gold is more favorable than Harmony Gold Mining.
Alamos Gold received 102 more outperform votes than Harmony Gold Mining when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.99% of users gave Alamos Gold an outperform vote while only 46.44% of users gave Harmony Gold Mining an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Alamos Gold had 10 more articles in the media than Harmony Gold Mining. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Alamos Gold and 5 mentions for Harmony Gold Mining. Harmony Gold Mining's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Alamos Gold's score of 0.76 indicating that Alamos Gold is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Alamos Gold beats Harmony Gold Mining on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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