RGLD vs. NEM, TFPM, SSRM, SRL, MSB, DD, LYB, GOLD, PPG, and WPM
Should you be buying Royal Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Royal Gold include Newmont (NEM), Triple Flag Precious Metals (TFPM), SSR Mining (SSRM), Scully Royalty (SRL), Mesabi Trust (MSB), DuPont de Nemours (DD), LyondellBasell Industries (LYB), Barrick Gold (GOLD), PPG Industries (PPG), and Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM).
Newmont (NYSE:NEM) and Royal Gold (NASDAQ:RGLD) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
Royal Gold has a net margin of 38.12% compared to Royal Gold's net margin of -13.16%. Royal Gold's return on equity of 8.65% beat Newmont's return on equity.
Newmont currently has a consensus price target of $50.00, indicating a potential upside of 7.00%. Royal Gold has a consensus price target of $152.75, indicating a potential upside of 13.07%. Given Newmont's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Royal Gold is more favorable than Newmont.
Newmont pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Royal Gold pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Newmont pays out -37.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Royal Gold pays out 47.2% 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. Royal Gold has raised its dividend for 24 consecutive years. Newmont is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Newmont has a beta of 0.47, suggesting that its share price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Royal Gold has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Newmont had 17 more articles in the media than Royal Gold. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Newmont and 9 mentions for Royal Gold. Royal Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Newmont's score of 0.69 indicating that Newmont is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Royal Gold has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Newmont. Newmont is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Royal Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
68.9% of Newmont shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.7% of Royal Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Newmont shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Royal Gold shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Newmont received 161 more outperform votes than Royal Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.20% of users gave Royal Gold an outperform vote while only 63.41% of users gave Newmont an outperform vote.
Summary
Royal Gold beats Newmont on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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