RGLD vs. TFPM, KGC, GGB, FMC, X, TX, CLF, AXTA, PAAS, and AU
Should you be buying Royal Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Royal Gold include Triple Flag Precious Metals (TFPM), Kinross Gold (KGC), Gerdau (GGB), FMC (FMC), United States Steel (X), Ternium (TX), Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF), Axalta Coating Systems (AXTA), Pan American Silver (PAAS), and AngloGold Ashanti (AU). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Triple Flag Precious Metals (NYSE:TFPM) and Royal Gold (NASDAQ:RGLD) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Royal Gold has higher revenue and earnings than Triple Flag Precious Metals. Royal Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Triple Flag Precious Metals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Royal Gold received 744 more outperform votes than Triple Flag Precious Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.42% of users gave Royal Gold an outperform vote while only 23.08% of users gave Triple Flag Precious Metals an outperform vote.
82.9% of Triple Flag Precious Metals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.7% of Royal Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Royal Gold shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Triple Flag Precious Metals presently has a consensus price target of $17.25, indicating a potential upside of 5.44%. Royal Gold has a consensus price target of $143.25, indicating a potential upside of 14.99%. Given Triple Flag Precious Metals' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Royal Gold is more favorable than Triple Flag Precious Metals.
Triple Flag Precious Metals pays an annual dividend of $0.21 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Royal Gold pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Triple Flag Precious Metals pays out 110.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Royal Gold pays out 44.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Triple Flag Precious Metals has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Royal Gold has raised its dividend for 23 consecutive years. Royal Gold is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Royal Gold has a net margin of 39.53% compared to Royal Gold's net margin of 17.78%. Triple Flag Precious Metals' return on equity of 8.18% beat Royal Gold's return on equity.
In the previous week, Royal Gold had 8 more articles in the media than Triple Flag Precious Metals. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Royal Gold and 12 mentions for Triple Flag Precious Metals. Triple Flag Precious Metals' average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Royal Gold's score of 0.75 indicating that Royal Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Royal Gold beats Triple Flag Precious Metals on 16 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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