Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM) Share Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

Wheaton Precious Metals is the world's premier precious metals streaming company with the highest-quality portfolio of long-life, low-cost assets. Its business model offers investors leverage to commodity prices and exploration upside but with a much lower risk profile than a traditional mining company. Wheaton delivers amongst the highest cash operating margins in the mining industry, allowing it to pay a competitive dividend and continue to grow through accretive acquisitions. As a result, Wheaton has consistently outperformed gold and silver, as well as other mining investments. Wheaton is committed to strong ESG practices and giving back to the communities where Wheaton and its mining partners operate. Wheaton creates sustainable value through streaming.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: 8,800 to 9,180
• 50-Day Range: 8,125.08 to £112.98
• 52-Week Range: 6,325.65 to £128.75
• Volume: 2,714 shs
• Average Volume: 7,813 shs
• Market Capitalization: £40.51 billion
• P/E Ratio: 22.54
• Dividend Yield: 0.65%
• Price Target: £117
• Consensus Rating: Buy

Wheaton Precious Metals Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

Wheaton Precious Metals scored higher than 48% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 3.7 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Buy

Consensus Rating

Wheaton Precious Metals has received a consensus rating of Buy. The company's average rating score is 3.00, and is based on no strong buy ratings, 1 buy rating, no hold ratings, and no sell ratings.

Upside Potential

Wheaton Precious Metals has a consensus price target of £117, representing about 30.6% upside from its current price of GBX 8,960.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

Wheaton Precious Metals has only been the subject of 1 research reports in the past 90 days.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 1.3 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: N/A

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of Wheaton Precious Metals is 22.64, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 38.79.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of Wheaton Precious Metals is 22.64, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the Basic Materials sector average P/E ratio of about 23.19.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

Wheaton Precious Metals has a P/B Ratio of 5.60. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: N/A
• Short Interest Level: N/A

Short Interest

There is no current short interest data available for WPM.

Dividend

• Score: 0.8 / 5
• Dividend Strength: Weak

Dividend Yield

Wheaton Precious Metals has a dividend yield of 0.65%, which is in the bottom 25% of all stocks that pay dividends.

Dividend Growth

Wheaton Precious Metals does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

Dividend Coverage

The dividend payout ratio of Wheaton Precious Metals is 17.44%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%.

News and Social Media

• Score: 0.0 / 5
• News Sentiment: N/A

Search Interest

Only 31 people have searched for WPM on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is a decrease of -70% compared to the previous 30 days.

Company Ownership

• Score: 0.7 / 5
• Insider Trading: N/A

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, Wheaton Precious Metals insiders have not sold or bought any company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

0.13% of the stock of Wheaton Precious Metals is held by insiders.

Percentage Held by Institutions

62.18% of the stock of Wheaton Precious Metals is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: LON
• Sector: Basic Materials
• Industry: Gold
• Sub-Industry: Precious Metals
• Current Symbol: LON:WPM
• CIK: N/A
• Web: www.wheatonpm.com
• Phone: 604-684-9648
• Fax: N/A
• Employees: 42
• Year Founded: N/A

Price Target and Rating

• Average Price Target for Wheaton Precious Metals: £117
• High Price Target: £117
• Low Price Target: £117
• Potential Upside/Downside: +31.5%
• Consensus Rating: Buy
• Rating Score (0-4): 3.00
• Research Coverage: 1 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Trailing Twelve Months): GBX 395.70
• Trailing P/E Ratio: 22.49
• Forward P/E Ratio: N/A
• P/E Growth: N/A
• Net Income: £754.42 million
• Net Margins: 65.55%
• Pretax Margin: N/A
• Return on Equity: 21.32%
• Return on Assets: 5.35%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 0.08
• Current Ratio: 4.53
• Quick Ratio: N/A

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: £2.75 billion
• Price / Sales: 14.72
• Cash Flow: N/A
• Price / Cash Flow: N/A
• Book Value: GBX 1,600.51 per share
• Price / Book: 5.56

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 454,125,000
• Free Float: N/A
• Market Cap: £40.42 billion
• Optionable: Not Optionable
• Beta: 1.16