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Pan American Silver (PAAS) Competitors

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PAAS vs. AEM, AG, AGI, BTG, EXK, FSM, HL, WPM, SVM, and MAG

Should you be buying Pan American Silver stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pan American Silver include Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM), First Majestic Silver (AG), Alamos Gold (AGI), B2Gold (BTG), Endeavour Silver (EXK), Fortuna Mining (FSM), Hecla Mining (HL), Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), Silvercorp Metals (SVM), and MAG Silver (MAG). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.

Pan American Silver vs. Its Competitors

Pan American Silver (NYSE:PAAS) and Agnico Eagle Mines (NYSE:AEM) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.

Pan American Silver has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Agnico Eagle Mines has a beta of 0.44, suggesting that its share price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Pan American Silver presently has a consensus target price of $31.40, suggesting a potential downside of 0.03%. Agnico Eagle Mines has a consensus target price of $136.90, suggesting a potential upside of 0.83%. Given Agnico Eagle Mines' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Agnico Eagle Mines is more favorable than Pan American Silver.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Pan American Silver
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.43
Agnico Eagle Mines
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
5 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.21

In the previous week, Agnico Eagle Mines had 20 more articles in the media than Pan American Silver. MarketBeat recorded 38 mentions for Agnico Eagle Mines and 18 mentions for Pan American Silver. Pan American Silver's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Agnico Eagle Mines' score of 1.02 indicating that Pan American Silver is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Pan American Silver
12 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Agnico Eagle Mines
26 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Agnico Eagle Mines has higher revenue and earnings than Pan American Silver. Agnico Eagle Mines is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pan American Silver, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Pan American Silver$2.82B4.03$111.50M$0.8736.10
Agnico Eagle Mines$8.29B8.24$1.90B$5.8823.09

Pan American Silver pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Agnico Eagle Mines pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Pan American Silver pays out 46.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Agnico Eagle Mines pays out 27.2% 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. Pan American Silver has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Pan American Silver is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

55.4% of Pan American Silver shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.3% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are held by institutional investors. 12.9% of Pan American Silver shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Agnico Eagle Mines has a net margin of 30.63% compared to Pan American Silver's net margin of 16.80%. Agnico Eagle Mines' return on equity of 13.79% beat Pan American Silver's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Pan American Silver16.80% 11.64% 7.66%
Agnico Eagle Mines 30.63%13.79%9.66%

Summary

Agnico Eagle Mines beats Pan American Silver on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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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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PAAS vs. The Competition

MetricPan American SilverMINING IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$10.62B$5.66B$3.27B$20.70B
Dividend Yield1.36%1.05%5.18%3.66%
P/E Ratio21.6617.03107.4428.65
Price / Sales4.037.3435,179,415,501,999,500.0068.85
Price / Cash12.4120.0223.9223.59
Price / Book2.422.735.994.32
Net Income$111.50M$91.54M$148.72M$995.66M
7 Day Performance16.24%13.86%3.24%1.91%
1 Month Performance9.86%13.63%4.11%-0.54%
1 Year Performance69.04%90.29%36.66%14.76%

Pan American Silver Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PAAS
Pan American Silver
3.7877 of 5 stars
$31.41
+7.0%
$31.40
0.0%
+61.5%$10.62B$2.82B21.669,000Trending News
Earnings Report
Options Volume
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
AEM
Agnico Eagle Mines
4.4009 of 5 stars
$131.45
+5.0%
$136.90
+4.1%
+87.9%$66.09B$8.29B22.3616,968Positive News
AG
First Majestic Silver
2.3995 of 5 stars
$8.18
+4.4%
$9.63
+17.7%
+81.6%$3.98B$560.60M-28.193,818Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Gap Up
AGI
Alamos Gold
3.4656 of 5 stars
$25.59
+2.9%
$30.38
+18.7%
+58.2%$10.76B$1.35B30.832,400Analyst Forecast
BTG
B2Gold
2.4945 of 5 stars
$3.57
+3.8%
$4.31
+20.8%
+40.4%$4.72B$1.97B-7.444,690Positive News
Earnings Report
EXK
Endeavour Silver
3.664 of 5 stars
$5.20
+4.8%
$8.33
+60.3%
+78.9%$1.51B$217.60M-20.001,120Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Revision
Gap Up
FSM
Fortuna Mining
3.5742 of 5 stars
$6.71
+4.9%
$7.50
+11.9%
+49.6%$2.06B$1.06B13.152,327Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Gap Down
HL
Hecla Mining
3.7618 of 5 stars
$5.98
+5.0%
$7.07
+18.4%
+50.2%$3.78B$1.00B54.321,830Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
Options Volume
Gap Up
WPM
Wheaton Precious Metals
3.6548 of 5 stars
$95.85
+4.1%
$93.00
-3.0%
+87.0%$43.51B$1.46B70.4840Positive News
Earnings Report
Analyst Revision
SVM
Silvercorp Metals
2.5639 of 5 stars
$4.47
+3.5%
$5.93
+32.6%
N/A$975.40M$298.89M14.901,190Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
MAG
MAG Silver
N/A$20.99
+43.1%
N/A+93.7%$2.11BN/A23.1210

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