HMY vs. WPM, FNV, GFI, AU, KGC, AGI, PAAS, OR, BTG, and EGO
Should you be buying Harmony Gold Mining stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Harmony Gold Mining include Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), Franco-Nevada (FNV), Gold Fields (GFI), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), Kinross Gold (KGC), Alamos Gold (AGI), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), B2Gold (BTG), and Eldorado Gold (EGO). These companies are all part of the "precious metals" industry.
Harmony Gold Mining vs.
Wheaton Precious Metals (NYSE:WPM) and Harmony Gold Mining (NYSE:HMY) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Wheaton Precious Metals had 3 more articles in the media than Harmony Gold Mining. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Wheaton Precious Metals and 8 mentions for Harmony Gold Mining. Wheaton Precious Metals' average media sentiment score of 1.78 beat Harmony Gold Mining's score of 1.54 indicating that Wheaton Precious Metals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Wheaton Precious Metals presently has a consensus target price of $85.90, indicating a potential upside of 1.46%. Harmony Gold Mining has a consensus target price of $8.40, indicating a potential downside of 44.40%. Given Wheaton Precious Metals' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Wheaton Precious Metals is more favorable than Harmony Gold Mining.
Wheaton Precious Metals has a beta of 0.49, suggesting that its share price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Harmony Gold Mining has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Wheaton Precious Metals pays an annual dividend of $0.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Harmony Gold Mining pays an annual dividend of $0.19 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Wheaton Precious Metals pays out 48.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Harmony Gold Mining pays out 11.2% 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 increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Harmony Gold Mining is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Wheaton Precious Metals has a net margin of 50.05% compared to Harmony Gold Mining's net margin of 0.00%. Wheaton Precious Metals' return on equity of 8.85% beat Harmony Gold Mining's return on equity.
70.3% of Wheaton Precious Metals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.8% of Harmony Gold Mining shares are held by institutional investors. 16.0% of Harmony Gold Mining shares are held by company 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.
Wheaton Precious Metals has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Harmony Gold Mining. Harmony Gold Mining 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 received 100 more outperform votes than Harmony Gold Mining when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.48% of users gave Wheaton Precious Metals an outperform vote while only 46.05% of users gave Harmony Gold Mining an outperform vote.
Summary
Wheaton Precious Metals beats Harmony Gold Mining on 16 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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