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Harmony Gold Mining (HMY) Competitors

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$14.86 -1.05 (-6.60%)
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HMY vs. WPM, FNV, GFI, KGC, AU, AGI, PAAS, OR, IAG, and BTG

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), Kinross Gold (KGC), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), Alamos Gold (AGI), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), IAMGOLD (IAG), and B2Gold (BTG). These companies are all part of the "precious metals" industry.

Harmony Gold Mining vs.

Harmony Gold Mining (NYSE:HMY) and Wheaton Precious Metals (NYSE:WPM) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and profitability.

Harmony Gold Mining pays an annual dividend of $0.19 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Wheaton Precious Metals pays an annual dividend of $0.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Harmony Gold Mining pays out 11.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Wheaton Precious Metals pays out 56.9% 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. Harmony Gold Mining is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Wheaton Precious Metals has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Harmony Gold Mining$67.11B0.14$459.40M$1.698.79
Wheaton Precious Metals$1.28B28.63$537.64M$1.1669.88

Harmony Gold Mining currently has a consensus target price of $8.40, indicating a potential downside of 43.47%. Wheaton Precious Metals has a consensus target price of $83.40, indicating a potential upside of 2.89%. Given Wheaton Precious Metals' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Wheaton Precious Metals is more favorable than Harmony Gold Mining.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Harmony Gold Mining
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Wheaton Precious Metals
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
9 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.08

In the previous week, Wheaton Precious Metals had 11 more articles in the media than Harmony Gold Mining. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Wheaton Precious Metals and 4 mentions for Harmony Gold Mining. Wheaton Precious Metals' average media sentiment score of 1.55 beat Harmony Gold Mining's score of 0.86 indicating that Wheaton Precious Metals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Harmony Gold Mining
3 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Wheaton Precious Metals
13 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

Harmony Gold Mining has a beta of 1.42, indicating that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wheaton Precious Metals has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.

31.8% of Harmony Gold Mining shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.3% of Wheaton Precious Metals 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, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Wheaton Precious Metals received 99 more outperform votes than Harmony Gold Mining when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.52% of users gave Wheaton Precious Metals an outperform vote while only 46.05% of users gave Harmony Gold Mining an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Harmony Gold MiningOutperform Votes
303
46.05%
Underperform Votes
355
53.95%
Wheaton Precious MetalsOutperform Votes
402
62.52%
Underperform Votes
241
37.48%

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Harmony Gold MiningN/A N/A N/A
Wheaton Precious Metals 50.05%8.85%8.74%

Summary

Wheaton Precious Metals beats Harmony Gold Mining on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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HMY vs. The Competition

MetricHarmony Gold MiningGold & silver ores IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$9.43B$4.65B$3.02B$18.96B
Dividend Yield1.23%2.05%5.18%4.01%
P/E Ratio8.7925.0375.4232.87
Price / Sales0.149.8024,272,056,611,899,800.0028.03
Price / Cash8.5621.1124.3217.52
Price / Book4.293.155.144.47
Net Income$459.40M$36.57M$155.11M$1.02B
7 Day Performance-3.38%-1.85%-0.20%0.59%
1 Month Performance-1.59%3.86%1.75%-3.54%
1 Year Performance75.44%38.63%17.14%3.80%

Harmony Gold Mining Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
HMY
Harmony Gold Mining
3.1792 of 5 stars
$14.86
-6.6%
$8.40
-43.5%
+72.7%$9.43B$67.11B8.7947,400Gap Down
WPM
Wheaton Precious Metals
3.9969 of 5 stars
$82.07
+0.5%
$83.40
+1.6%
+53.1%$37.24B$1.28B61.2540Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
FNV
Franco-Nevada
2.9416 of 5 stars
$170.66
+0.3%
$162.25
-4.9%
+35.7%$32.86B$1.11B-54.0140Positive News
GFI
Gold Fields
2.9775 of 5 stars
$22.34
+2.5%
$18.56
-16.9%
+30.0%$19.99B$5.20B9.512,610Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↑
Gap Down
KGC
Kinross Gold
4.3804 of 5 stars
$14.78
+2.0%
$13.30
-10.0%
+118.7%$18.19B$5.15B19.2037,369Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↓
Positive News
Gap Down
AU
AngloGold Ashanti
2.1682 of 5 stars
$41.24
+4.1%
$41.00
-0.6%
+69.5%$17.31B$5.79B12.8912,227Positive News
Gap Down
AGI
Alamos Gold
3.0569 of 5 stars
$28.43
+1.7%
$30.38
+6.8%
+72.1%$11.96B$1.35B41.203,310Earnings Report
Options Volume
Gap Down
PAAS
Pan American Silver
3.7126 of 5 stars
$25.68
+0.8%
$28.50
+11.0%
+29.4%$9.30B$2.82B80.2513,000Gap Down
OR
Osisko Gold Royalties
1.6104 of 5 stars
$23.66
+1.3%
$23.00
-2.8%
+51.3%$4.43B$191.16M262.8930Upcoming Earnings
Gap Down
IAG
IAMGOLD
4.4924 of 5 stars
$7.21
+2.6%
$7.57
+4.9%
+87.4%$4.15B$1.63B4.975,360Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↓
Positive News
Gap Up
BTG
B2Gold
3.9563 of 5 stars
$3.09
+0.3%
$4.21
+36.3%
N/A$4.08B$1.90B-6.444,690Gap Down
High Trading Volume

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