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Should you be buying Wheaton Precious Metals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wheaton Precious Metals include Franco-Nevada (FNV), Barrick Gold (GOLD), Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM), Gold Fields (GFI), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), Kinross Gold (KGC), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Newmont (NEM), Teck Resources (TECK), and Nutrien (NTR). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Wheaton Precious Metals (NYSE:WPM) and Franco-Nevada (NYSE:FNV) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.
Wheaton Precious Metals currently has a consensus target price of $54.30, indicating a potential upside of 0.85%. Franco-Nevada has a consensus target price of $148.60, indicating a potential upside of 17.89%. Given Franco-Nevada's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Franco-Nevada is more favorable than Wheaton Precious Metals.
70.3% of Wheaton Precious Metals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.1% of Franco-Nevada shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Franco-Nevada shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Wheaton Precious Metals has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Franco-Nevada has a beta of 0.72, suggesting that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Franco-Nevada received 18 more outperform votes than Wheaton Precious Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.36% of users gave Wheaton Precious Metals an outperform vote while only 55.23% of users gave Franco-Nevada an outperform vote.
Wheaton Precious Metals has a net margin of 52.92% compared to Franco-Nevada's net margin of -39.88%. Franco-Nevada's return on equity of 10.81% beat Wheaton Precious Metals' return on equity.
Wheaton Precious Metals pays an annual dividend of $0.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Franco-Nevada pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Wheaton Precious Metals pays out 52.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Franco-Nevada pays out -57.8% 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.
In the previous week, Franco-Nevada had 13 more articles in the media than Wheaton Precious Metals. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Franco-Nevada and 7 mentions for Wheaton Precious Metals. Wheaton Precious Metals' average media sentiment score of 1.49 beat Franco-Nevada's score of 0.98 indicating that Wheaton Precious Metals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Wheaton Precious Metals has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Franco-Nevada. Franco-Nevada 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.
Summary
Wheaton Precious Metals beats Franco-Nevada on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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