FNV vs. GFI, AU, KGC, BTG, OR, SAND, FSM, CGAU, SILV, and EXK
Should you be buying Franco-Nevada stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Franco-Nevada include Gold Fields (GFI), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), Kinross Gold (KGC), B2Gold (BTG), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Sandstorm Gold (SAND), Fortuna Silver Mines (FSM), Centerra Gold (CGAU), SilverCrest Metals (SILV), and Endeavour Silver (EXK). These companies are all part of the "precious metals" industry.
Gold Fields (NYSE:GFI) and Franco-Nevada (NYSE:FNV) are both large-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, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Gold Fields has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Gold Fields' net margin of -39.88%. Gold Fields' return on equity of 10.81% beat Franco-Nevada's return on equity.
Gold Fields currently has a consensus price target of $15.90, indicating a potential downside of 2.60%. Franco-Nevada has a consensus price target of $152.33, indicating a potential upside of 22.22%. Given Gold Fields' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Franco-Nevada is more favorable than Gold Fields.
Gold Fields has higher revenue and earnings than Franco-Nevada.
26.0% of Gold Fields shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.1% of Franco-Nevada shares are owned by institutional investors. 36.8% of Gold Fields shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Franco-Nevada shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Franco-Nevada received 214 more outperform votes than Gold Fields when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.14% of users gave Franco-Nevada an outperform vote while only 53.20% of users gave Gold Fields an outperform vote.
Gold Fields pays an annual dividend of $0.35 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Franco-Nevada pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Franco-Nevada pays out -57.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Gold Fields has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Franco-Nevada has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Franco-Nevada had 9 more articles in the media than Gold Fields. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Franco-Nevada and 3 mentions for Gold Fields. Franco-Nevada's average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat Gold Fields' score of 0.68 indicating that Gold Fields is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Franco-Nevada beats Gold Fields on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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