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$114.59 -1.04 (-0.90%)
Closing price 05/22/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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AEM vs. WPM, FNV, GFI, AU, KGC, AGI, HMY, PAAS, OR, and BTG

Should you be buying Agnico Eagle Mines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Agnico Eagle Mines include Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), Franco-Nevada (FNV), Gold Fields (GFI), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), Kinross Gold (KGC), Alamos Gold (AGI), Harmony Gold Mining (HMY), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), and B2Gold (BTG). These companies are all part of the "precious metals" industry.

Agnico Eagle Mines vs.

Agnico Eagle Mines (NYSE:AEM) and Wheaton Precious Metals (NYSE:WPM) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.

Agnico Eagle Mines presently has a consensus target price of $124.40, indicating a potential upside of 8.56%. Wheaton Precious Metals has a consensus target price of $85.90, indicating a potential upside of 1.59%. Given Agnico Eagle Mines' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Agnico Eagle Mines is more favorable than Wheaton Precious Metals.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Agnico Eagle Mines
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
4 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.17
Wheaton Precious Metals
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
9 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.08

Agnico Eagle Mines pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Wheaton Precious Metals pays an annual dividend of $0.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Agnico Eagle Mines pays out 34.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Wheaton Precious Metals pays out 48.5% 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. Wheaton Precious Metals has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Agnico Eagle Mines is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

68.3% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.3% of Wheaton Precious Metals shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Wheaton Precious Metals has a net margin of 50.05% compared to Agnico Eagle Mines' net margin of 22.88%. Agnico Eagle Mines' return on equity of 10.45% beat Wheaton Precious Metals' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Agnico Eagle Mines22.88% 10.45% 7.18%
Wheaton Precious Metals 50.05%8.85%8.74%

In the previous week, Agnico Eagle Mines had 9 more articles in the media than Wheaton Precious Metals. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Agnico Eagle Mines and 12 mentions for Wheaton Precious Metals. Wheaton Precious Metals' average media sentiment score of 1.69 beat Agnico Eagle Mines' score of 1.24 indicating that Wheaton Precious Metals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Agnico Eagle Mines
18 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Wheaton Precious Metals
11 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

Agnico Eagle Mines has higher revenue and earnings than Wheaton Precious Metals. Agnico Eagle Mines 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
Agnico Eagle Mines$8.92B6.46$1.90B$4.7024.38
Wheaton Precious Metals$1.46B26.32$537.64M$1.3662.18

Agnico Eagle Mines received 259 more outperform votes than Wheaton Precious Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.48% of users gave Wheaton Precious Metals an outperform vote while only 58.27% of users gave Agnico Eagle Mines an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Agnico Eagle MinesOutperform Votes
662
58.27%
Underperform Votes
474
41.73%
Wheaton Precious MetalsOutperform Votes
403
62.48%
Underperform Votes
242
37.52%

Agnico Eagle Mines has a beta of 0.54, indicating that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wheaton Precious Metals has a beta of 0.49, indicating that its share price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Agnico Eagle Mines beats Wheaton Precious Metals on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.

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AEM vs. The Competition

MetricAgnico Eagle MinesGold & silver ores IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$57.67B$4.42B$3.08B$19.30B
Dividend Yield1.42%2.07%5.20%3.83%
P/E Ratio30.3126.7167.8834.53
Price / Sales6.4610.6625,591,212,775,269,400.0034.84
Price / Cash13.2821.4524.3417.51
Price / Book2.763.305.214.69
Net Income$1.90B$8.61M$156.48M$1.02B
7 Day Performance7.71%5.58%2.51%-2.43%
1 Month Performance-3.13%1.86%5.08%6.27%
1 Year Performance70.22%32.62%18.50%5.78%

Agnico Eagle Mines Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AEM
Agnico Eagle Mines
4.2249 of 5 stars
$114.59
-0.9%
$124.40
+8.6%
+68.5%$57.67B$8.92B30.3111,800Positive News
WPM
Wheaton Precious Metals
3.9738 of 5 stars
$80.25
+2.2%
$85.90
+7.0%
+49.4%$36.42B$1.46B59.8940Positive News
Gap Down
FNV
Franco-Nevada
2.7852 of 5 stars
$161.63
+1.5%
$162.75
+0.7%
+31.8%$31.12B$1.23B-51.1540Positive News
GFI
Gold Fields
3.5499 of 5 stars
$21.26
+3.0%
$18.56
-12.7%
+36.6%$19.03B$5.20B9.052,610Positive News
Analyst Upgrade
AU
AngloGold Ashanti
2.7223 of 5 stars
$42.03
+3.2%
$41.30
-1.7%
+73.7%$17.64B$6.59B13.8312,227Positive News
KGC
Kinross Gold
4.3453 of 5 stars
$13.93
+1.6%
$13.90
-0.2%
+82.6%$17.14B$5.56B18.0937,369Positive News
AGI
Alamos Gold
3.4562 of 5 stars
$25.10
+2.4%
$30.38
+21.0%
+55.3%$10.56B$1.40B36.383,310Positive News
HMY
Harmony Gold Mining
3.5603 of 5 stars
$14.70
+1.7%
$8.40
-42.9%
+56.1%$9.33B$67.11B8.7047,400Positive News
PAAS
Pan American Silver
4.5391 of 5 stars
$23.15
+1.8%
$29.50
+27.4%
+11.8%$8.38B$2.99B72.3513,000Positive News
Ex-Dividend
Analyst Forecast
OR
Osisko Gold Royalties
1.4461 of 5 stars
$23.74
+1.8%
$23.00
-3.1%
+53.7%$4.44B$201.03M263.7830Positive News
BTG
B2Gold
3.6456 of 5 stars
$3.04
+3.1%
$4.21
+38.6%
+17.0%$4.01B$1.97B-6.334,690

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This page (NYSE:AEM) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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