GFI vs. AEM, WPM, FNV, AU, KGC, AGI, HMY, PAAS, OR, and BTG
Should you be buying Gold Fields stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gold Fields include Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM), Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), Franco-Nevada (FNV), 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.
Gold Fields vs.
Agnico Eagle Mines (NYSE:AEM) and Gold Fields (NYSE:GFI) 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 institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, dividends, profitability, risk, valuation, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Agnico Eagle Mines has a beta of 0.54, meaning that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gold Fields has a beta of 0.57, meaning that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
68.3% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.8% of Gold Fields shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 36.8% of Gold Fields shares are owned by 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.
Agnico Eagle Mines pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Gold Fields pays an annual dividend of $0.61 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Agnico Eagle Mines pays out 34.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Gold Fields pays out 26.0% 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. Gold Fields is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Agnico Eagle Mines has higher revenue and earnings than Gold Fields. Gold Fields 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.
In the previous week, Agnico Eagle Mines had 12 more articles in the media than Gold Fields. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Agnico Eagle Mines and 9 mentions for Gold Fields. Gold Fields' average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat Agnico Eagle Mines' score of 1.24 indicating that Gold Fields is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Agnico Eagle Mines presently has a consensus price target of $124.40, suggesting a potential upside of 8.56%. Gold Fields has a consensus price target of $18.56, suggesting a potential downside of 15.79%. Given Agnico Eagle Mines' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Agnico Eagle Mines is more favorable than Gold Fields.
Agnico Eagle Mines received 461 more outperform votes than Gold Fields when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.27% of users gave Agnico Eagle Mines an outperform vote while only 54.18% of users gave Gold Fields an outperform vote.
Agnico Eagle Mines has a net margin of 22.88% compared to Gold Fields' net margin of 0.00%. Agnico Eagle Mines' return on equity of 10.45% beat Gold Fields' return on equity.
Summary
Agnico Eagle Mines beats Gold Fields on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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