AGI vs. WPM, FNV, GFI, AU, KGC, HMY, PAAS, OR, BTG, and EGO
Should you be buying Alamos Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alamos Gold include Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), Franco-Nevada (FNV), Gold Fields (GFI), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), Kinross Gold (KGC), Harmony Gold Mining (HMY), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), B2Gold (BTG), and Eldorado Gold (EGO). These companies are all part of the "precious metals" industry.
Alamos Gold vs.
Wheaton Precious Metals (NYSE:WPM) and Alamos Gold (NYSE:AGI) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking and earnings.
Wheaton Precious Metals has higher revenue and earnings than Alamos Gold. Alamos Gold 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.
Wheaton Precious Metals has a beta of 0.49, suggesting that its share price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alamos Gold has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Wheaton Precious Metals currently has a consensus target price of $85.90, suggesting a potential upside of 3.48%. Alamos Gold has a consensus target price of $30.38, suggesting a potential upside of 18.93%. Given Alamos Gold's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Alamos Gold is more favorable than Wheaton Precious Metals.
In the previous week, Wheaton Precious Metals had 3 more articles in the media than Alamos Gold. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Wheaton Precious Metals and 11 mentions for Alamos Gold. Wheaton Precious Metals' average media sentiment score of 1.72 beat Alamos Gold's score of 1.42 indicating that Wheaton Precious Metals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
70.3% of Wheaton Precious Metals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.3% of Alamos Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Alamos Gold shares are held by company 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 Alamos Gold's net margin of 21.11%. Alamos Gold's return on equity of 10.05% beat Wheaton Precious Metals' return on equity.
Wheaton Precious Metals pays an annual dividend of $0.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Alamos Gold pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Wheaton Precious Metals pays out 48.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alamos Gold pays out 16.1% 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. Wheaton Precious Metals is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Alamos Gold received 16 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 56.62% of users gave Alamos Gold an outperform vote.
Summary
Wheaton Precious Metals beats Alamos Gold on 16 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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