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 utilities companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking and profitability.
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.
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.
National Grid has a beta of 0.25, meaning that its stock price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wheaton Precious Metals has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.
National Grid currently has a consensus target price of GBX 1,131.67, indicating a potential upside of 8.14%. Wheaton Precious Metals has a consensus target price of GBX 5,900, indicating a potential downside of 10.42%. Given National Grid's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe National Grid is more favorable than Wheaton Precious Metals.
59.4% of National Grid shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.8% of Wheaton Precious Metals shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of National Grid shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Wheaton Precious Metals shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
National Grid pays an annual dividend of GBX 57 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Wheaton Precious Metals pays an annual dividend of GBX 47 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. 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 43.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, National Grid had 9 more articles in the media than Wheaton Precious Metals. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for National Grid and 1 mentions for Wheaton Precious Metals. National Grid's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Wheaton Precious Metals' score of 0.00 indicating that National Grid is being referred to more favorably in the media.
National Grid received 10 more outperform votes than Wheaton Precious Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Wheaton Precious Metals an outperform vote while only 70.37% of users gave National Grid an outperform vote.
Summary
National Grid and Wheaton Precious Metals tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:NG) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
