FNV vs. AEM, WPM, GFI, KGC, AU, AGI, PAAS, HMY, OR, and IAG
Should you be buying Franco-Nevada stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Franco-Nevada include Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM), Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), Gold Fields (GFI), Kinross Gold (KGC), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), Alamos Gold (AGI), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Harmony Gold Mining (HMY), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), and IAMGOLD (IAG). These companies are all part of the "precious metals" industry.
Franco-Nevada vs.
Franco-Nevada (NYSE:FNV) and Agnico Eagle Mines (NYSE:AEM) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, risk and institutional ownership.
Agnico Eagle Mines received 242 more outperform votes than Franco-Nevada when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.87% of users gave Agnico Eagle Mines an outperform vote while only 55.10% of users gave Franco-Nevada an outperform vote.
Franco-Nevada pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Agnico Eagle Mines pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Franco-Nevada pays out -45.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Agnico Eagle Mines pays out 80.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Franco-Nevada has a beta of 0.72, indicating that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Agnico Eagle Mines has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
77.1% of Franco-Nevada shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.3% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Franco-Nevada shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Agnico Eagle Mines has a net margin of 12.86% compared to Franco-Nevada's net margin of -55.28%. Franco-Nevada's return on equity of 10.55% beat Agnico Eagle Mines' return on equity.
Agnico Eagle Mines has higher revenue and earnings than Franco-Nevada. Franco-Nevada is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Agnico Eagle Mines, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Franco-Nevada presently has a consensus target price of $145.33, suggesting a potential upside of 12.35%. Agnico Eagle Mines has a consensus target price of $90.50, suggesting a potential upside of 2.07%. Given Franco-Nevada's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Franco-Nevada is more favorable than Agnico Eagle Mines.
In the previous week, Agnico Eagle Mines had 17 more articles in the media than Franco-Nevada. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Agnico Eagle Mines and 3 mentions for Franco-Nevada. Franco-Nevada's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Agnico Eagle Mines' score of 0.76 indicating that Franco-Nevada is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Agnico Eagle Mines beats Franco-Nevada on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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