HMY vs. FNV, GFI, AU, KGC, PAAS, AGI, IAG, 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 Franco-Nevada (FNV), Gold Fields (GFI), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), Kinross Gold (KGC), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Alamos Gold (AGI), Iamgold (IAG), OR Royalties (OR), B2Gold (BTG), and Eldorado Gold (EGO). These companies are all part of the "precious metals" industry.
Harmony Gold Mining vs. Its Competitors
Harmony Gold Mining (NYSE:HMY) and Franco-Nevada (NYSE:FNV) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings and profitability.
Harmony Gold Mining has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Franco-Nevada has a beta of 0.42, indicating that its share price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Harmony Gold Mining has higher revenue and earnings than Franco-Nevada. Harmony Gold Mining is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Franco-Nevada, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Harmony Gold Mining pays an annual dividend of $0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Franco-Nevada pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Harmony Gold Mining pays out 8.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Franco-Nevada pays out 37.3% 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. Franco-Nevada has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Franco-Nevada is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Franco-Nevada had 9 more articles in the media than Harmony Gold Mining. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Franco-Nevada and 9 mentions for Harmony Gold Mining. Harmony Gold Mining's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Franco-Nevada's score of 0.78 indicating that Harmony Gold Mining is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Harmony Gold Mining presently has a consensus target price of $12.20, suggesting a potential downside of 38.31%. Franco-Nevada has a consensus target price of $196.86, suggesting a potential downside of 5.57%. Given Franco-Nevada's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Franco-Nevada is more favorable than Harmony Gold Mining.
31.8% of Harmony Gold Mining shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.1% of Franco-Nevada shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.0% of Harmony Gold Mining shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Franco-Nevada shares are owned 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.
Franco-Nevada has a net margin of 58.82% compared to Harmony Gold Mining's net margin of 0.00%. Franco-Nevada's return on equity of 12.56% beat Harmony Gold Mining's return on equity.
Summary
Franco-Nevada beats Harmony Gold Mining on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NYSE:HMY) was last updated on 10/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
