PAAS vs. AGI, K, TNX, BTO, LUG, ELD, OR, PRU, IMG, and EQX
Should you be buying Pan American Silver stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pan American Silver include Alamos Gold (AGI), Kinross Gold (K), TRX Gold (TNX), B2Gold (BTO), Lundin Gold (LUG), Eldorado Gold (ELD), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Perseus Mining (PRU), IAMGOLD (IMG), and Equinox Gold (EQX). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Pan American Silver (TSE:PAAS) and Alamos Gold (TSE:AGI) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
Alamos Gold received 336 more outperform votes than Pan American Silver when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.45% of users gave Pan American Silver an outperform vote while only 61.98% of users gave Alamos Gold an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Alamos Gold had 8 more articles in the media than Pan American Silver. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Alamos Gold and 2 mentions for Pan American Silver. Alamos Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Pan American Silver's score of 0.00 indicating that Alamos Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
62.0% of Pan American Silver shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.5% of Alamos Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Pan American Silver shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Alamos Gold shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Pan American Silver pays an annual dividend of C$0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Alamos Gold pays an annual dividend of C$0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Pan American Silver pays out -122.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alamos Gold pays out 19.4% 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. Pan American Silver is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Pan American Silver has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alamos Gold has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Pan American Silver currently has a consensus target price of C$29.13, suggesting a potential upside of 12.89%. Alamos Gold has a consensus target price of C$22.55, suggesting a potential upside of 8.05%. Given Pan American Silver's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Pan American Silver is more favorable than Alamos Gold.
Alamos Gold has a net margin of 20.52% compared to Pan American Silver's net margin of -4.48%. Alamos Gold's return on equity of 7.44% beat Pan American Silver's return on equity.
Alamos Gold has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Pan American Silver. Pan American Silver is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alamos Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Alamos Gold beats Pan American Silver on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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