AGI vs. PAAS, HMY, KGC, SBSW, OR, EGO, HL, AU, AG, and IAG
Should you be buying Alamos Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alamos Gold include Pan American Silver (PAAS), Harmony Gold Mining (HMY), Kinross Gold (KGC), Sibanye Stillwater (SBSW), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Eldorado Gold (EGO), Hecla Mining (HL), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), First Majestic Silver (AG), and IAMGOLD (IAG). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Pan American Silver (NYSE:PAAS) and Alamos Gold (NYSE:AGI) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings and profitability.
55.4% of Pan American Silver shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.3% of Alamos Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.9% of Pan American Silver shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Alamos Gold shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Alamos Gold has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Pan American Silver. Pan American Silver is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alamos Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Pan American Silver received 96 more outperform votes than Alamos Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.33% of users gave Pan American Silver an outperform vote while only 55.90% of users gave Alamos Gold an outperform vote.
Pan American Silver pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Alamos Gold pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Pan American Silver pays out -133.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alamos Gold pays out 18.9% 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. Pan American Silver is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Pan American Silver currently has a consensus target price of $20.42, suggesting a potential upside of 35.39%. Alamos Gold has a consensus target price of $14.38, suggesting a potential downside of 2.54%. Given Alamos Gold's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Pan American Silver is more favorable than Alamos Gold.
Alamos Gold has a net margin of 20.52% compared to Alamos Gold's net margin of -5.24%. Pan American Silver's return on equity of 7.30% beat Alamos Gold's return on equity.
Pan American Silver has a beta of 1.42, suggesting that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alamos Gold has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Alamos Gold had 14 more articles in the media than Pan American Silver. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Alamos Gold and 1 mentions for Pan American Silver. Alamos Gold's average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Pan American Silver's score of 0.44 indicating that Pan American Silver is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Pan American Silver beats Alamos Gold on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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