PAAS vs. WPM, FNV, GFI, AU, KGC, AGI, HMY, BTG, OR, and SBSW
Should you be buying Pan American Silver stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pan American Silver include Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), Franco-Nevada (FNV), Gold Fields (GFI), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), Kinross Gold (KGC), Alamos Gold (AGI), Harmony Gold Mining (HMY), B2Gold (BTG), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), and Sibanye Stillwater (SBSW). These companies are all part of the "precious metals" industry.
Pan American Silver vs.
Wheaton Precious Metals (NYSE:WPM) and Pan American Silver (NYSE:PAAS) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, profitability and dividends.
Wheaton Precious Metals presently has a consensus price target of $86.90, indicating a potential downside of 2.49%. Pan American Silver has a consensus price target of $30.60, indicating a potential upside of 6.79%. Given Pan American Silver's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Pan American Silver is more favorable than Wheaton Precious Metals.
Wheaton Precious Metals has a beta of 0.46, suggesting that its stock price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pan American Silver has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
70.3% of Wheaton Precious Metals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.4% of Pan American Silver shares are held by institutional investors. 12.9% of Pan American Silver shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Wheaton Precious Metals pays an annual dividend of $0.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Pan American Silver pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Wheaton Precious Metals pays out 48.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Pan American Silver pays out 46.0% 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. Wheaton Precious Metals has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and 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 lower payout ratio.
Wheaton Precious Metals has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Pan American Silver. Pan American Silver 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.
Pan American Silver received 104 more outperform votes than Wheaton Precious Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.38% of users gave Wheaton Precious Metals an outperform vote while only 55.90% of users gave Pan American Silver an outperform vote.
Wheaton Precious Metals has a net margin of 50.05% compared to Pan American Silver's net margin of 3.98%. Wheaton Precious Metals' return on equity of 8.85% beat Pan American Silver's return on equity.
In the previous week, Wheaton Precious Metals and Wheaton Precious Metals both had 7 articles in the media. Wheaton Precious Metals' average media sentiment score of 1.62 beat Pan American Silver's score of 0.74 indicating that Wheaton Precious Metals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Wheaton Precious Metals beats Pan American Silver on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:PAAS) was last updated on 6/11/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff