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Pan American Silver (PAAS) Competitors

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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.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Wheaton Precious Metals
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
9 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.08
Pan American Silver
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.33

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Wheaton Precious Metals$1.46B27.74$537.64M$1.3665.53
Pan American Silver$2.99B3.47-$103.70M$0.8732.94

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.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Wheaton Precious MetalsOutperform Votes
403
62.38%
Underperform Votes
243
37.62%
Pan American SilverOutperform Votes
507
55.90%
Underperform Votes
400
44.10%

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Wheaton Precious Metals50.05% 8.85% 8.74%
Pan American Silver 3.98%6.14%4.03%

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.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Wheaton Precious Metals
7 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
Pan American Silver
4 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Wheaton Precious Metals beats Pan American Silver on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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PAAS vs. The Competition

MetricPan American SilverGold & silver ores IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$10.23B$4.68B$3.19B$19.85B
Dividend Yield1.50%1.82%5.04%3.84%
P/E Ratio88.2729.4076.5135.85
Price / Sales3.4212.3428,196,331,330,659,000.0047.36
Price / Cash10.7821.4524.2617.52
Price / Book2.173.585.374.85
Net Income-$103.70M$8.61M$155.01M$1.02B
7 Day Performance5.95%1.44%1.68%2.15%
1 Month Performance3.69%11.42%6.61%5.75%
1 Year Performance40.67%47.17%20.96%10.89%

Pan American Silver Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PAAS
Pan American Silver
3.0997 of 5 stars
$28.66
+0.6%
$30.60
+6.8%
+41.9%$10.38B$2.99B89.5513,000
WPM
Wheaton Precious Metals
4.3416 of 5 stars
$89.05
+0.4%
$86.90
-2.4%
+63.8%$40.41B$1.46B66.4640Positive News
FNV
Franco-Nevada
3.5169 of 5 stars
$167.00
-0.1%
$169.63
+1.6%
+37.0%$32.16B$1.23B-52.8540Gap Up
GFI
Gold Fields
3.2064 of 5 stars
$24.64
flat
$18.56
-24.7%
+52.9%$22.05B$5.20B10.492,610Gap Up
AU
AngloGold Ashanti
2.0028 of 5 stars
$46.38
+0.9%
$41.30
-11.0%
+99.9%$19.47B$6.59B15.2612,227
KGC
Kinross Gold
4.0193 of 5 stars
$15.09
0.0%
$15.40
+2.1%
+96.5%$18.51B$5.56B19.5937,369
AGI
Alamos Gold
2.6336 of 5 stars
$27.21
+2.0%
$30.38
+11.6%
+66.2%$11.43B$1.40B39.433,310
HMY
Harmony Gold Mining
3.8347 of 5 stars
$14.92
+2.5%
$8.40
-43.7%
+76.6%$9.47B$67.11B8.8347,400Positive News
BTG
B2Gold
2.7711 of 5 stars
$3.70
+0.8%
$4.21
+13.9%
+34.8%$4.89B$1.97B-7.714,690
OR
Osisko Gold Royalties
1.4435 of 5 stars
$25.99
+0.3%
$23.00
-11.5%
+50.5%$4.87B$201.03M288.7830
SBSW
Sibanye Stillwater
1.0548 of 5 stars
$6.84
+1.5%
$5.05
-26.2%
+47.4%$4.84B$112.13B13.1585,000Gap Up

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This page (NYSE:PAAS) was last updated on 6/11/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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