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National Grid (NG) Competitors

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GBX 1,081.50 +4.00 (+0.37%)
As of 10/6/2025

NG vs. WPM, IAG, AUY, BTG, SFR, TRX, NAK, EGI, IMG, and EDG

Should you be buying National Grid stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of National Grid include Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG), Yamana Gold (AUY), BTG (BTG), Severfield (SFR), Tissue Regenix Group (TRX), Nakama Group plc (NAK.L) (NAK), (EGI.L) (EGI), 532753 (IMG.L) (IMG), and 651814 (EDG.L) (EDG). These companies are all part of the "precious metals" industry.

National Grid vs. Its Competitors

National Grid (LON:NG) and Wheaton Precious Metals (LON:WPM) are both large-cap precious metals companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and profitability.

National Grid has higher revenue and earnings than Wheaton Precious Metals. National Grid 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
National Grid£25.99B2.04£3.00B£60.8717.77
Wheaton Precious Metals£1.66B22.34£754.42M£1.744,711.98

National Grid pays an annual dividend of GBX 57 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. Wheaton Precious Metals pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. National Grid pays out 93.6% 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 36.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Wheaton Precious Metals has a net margin of 50.05% compared to National Grid's net margin of 11.54%. Wheaton Precious Metals' return on equity of 8.56% beat National Grid's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
National Grid11.54% 7.72% 3.66%
Wheaton Precious Metals 50.05%8.56%5.35%

59.4% of National Grid shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.0% of Wheaton Precious Metals shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of National Grid shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Wheaton Precious Metals shares are owned by 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.

National Grid currently has a consensus price target of GBX 1,070, indicating a potential downside of 1.06%. Wheaton Precious Metals has a consensus price target of GBX 8,300, indicating a potential upside of 1.47%. Given Wheaton Precious Metals' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Wheaton Precious Metals is more favorable than National Grid.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
National Grid
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50
Wheaton Precious Metals
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

National Grid has a beta of 0.25, suggesting that its stock price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wheaton Precious Metals has a beta of 0.7, suggesting that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, National Grid had 8 more articles in the media than Wheaton Precious Metals. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for National Grid and 0 mentions for Wheaton Precious Metals. Wheaton Precious Metals' average media sentiment score of 1.63 beat National Grid's score of -0.11 indicating that Wheaton Precious Metals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
National Grid Neutral
Wheaton Precious Metals Very Positive

Summary

Wheaton Precious Metals beats National Grid on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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NG vs. The Competition

MetricNational GridUtilities IndustryUtilities SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£53.10B£20.99B£17.55B£2.60B
Dividend Yield5.74%5.32%4.62%5.29%
P/E Ratio17.7765.6357.324,437.11
Price / Sales2.0440.0635.8899,969.79
Price / Cash12.60135.4619.3427.90
Price / Book1.361.682.268.64
Net Income£3.00B£982.11M£748.50M£5.89B
7 Day Performance2.37%-0.22%8.08%0.50%
1 Month Performance4.59%0.57%10.54%5.97%
1 Year Performance8.48%9.72%136.03%164.53%

National Grid Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NG
National Grid
1.3011 of 5 stars
GBX 1,081.50
+0.4%
GBX 1,070
-1.1%
+8.1%£53.10B£25.99B17.7710High Trading Volume
WPM
Wheaton Precious Metals
0.7928 of 5 stars
GBX 8,220
-1.9%
GBX 8,300
+1.0%
+75.3%£37.32B£1.66B4,735.0242Positive News
Gap Up
IAG
International Consolidated Airlines Group
1.5246 of 5 stars
GBX 384.50
+0.1%
GBX 403.33
+4.9%
+102.0%£17.79B£33.28B595.205,360
AUY
Yamana Gold
N/AN/AN/AN/A£4.57B£1.81B-572.2911,600
BTG
BTG
N/AN/AN/AN/A£3.26B£914.10M29.474,690
SFR
Severfield
N/AGBX 30.46
-2.4%
N/A-61.7%£89.94M£450.91M-653.651,900Dividend Cut
Gap Down
TRX
Tissue Regenix Group
N/AGBX 12.90
-38.6%
N/A-81.3%£9.19M£28.65M-1,289.90120High Trading Volume
NAK
Nakama Group plc (NAK.L)
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.44M£8.09M-6.1353Gap Down
High Trading Volume
EGI
(EGI.L)
N/AN/AN/AN/A£0.00N/A0.006Gap Down
High Trading Volume
IMG
532753 (IMG.L)
N/AN/AN/AN/A£0.00N/A0.005,360High Trading Volume
EDG
651814 (EDG.L)
N/AN/AN/AN/A£0.00N/A0.002,610

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This page (LON:NG) was last updated on 10/7/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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