PAAS vs. AGI, HMY, KGC, AU, SBSW, EGO, OR, AG, IAG, and CDE
Should you be buying Pan American Silver stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pan American Silver include Alamos Gold (AGI), Harmony Gold Mining (HMY), Kinross Gold (KGC), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), Sibanye Stillwater (SBSW), Eldorado Gold (EGO), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), First Majestic Silver (AG), IAMGOLD (IAG), and Coeur Mining (CDE). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
Alamos Gold (NYSE:AGI) and Pan American Silver (NYSE:PAAS) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, valuation and profitability.
Alamos Gold currently has a consensus price target of $18.15, indicating a potential upside of 18.63%. Pan American Silver has a consensus price target of $21.00, indicating a potential upside of 10.41%. Given Pan American Silver's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Alamos Gold is more favorable than Pan American Silver.
In the previous week, Alamos Gold had 8 more articles in the media than Pan American Silver. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Alamos Gold and 12 mentions for Pan American Silver. Pan American Silver's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Alamos Gold's score of 0.55 indicating that Alamos Gold is being referred to more favorably in the media.
64.3% of Alamos Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.4% of Pan American Silver shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Alamos Gold shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.9% of Pan American Silver shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Alamos Gold has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pan American Silver has a beta of 1.44, suggesting that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Pan American Silver received 93 more outperform votes than Alamos Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.31% of users gave Pan American Silver an outperform vote while only 55.99% of users gave Alamos Gold an outperform vote.
Alamos Gold has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Pan American Silver. Pan American Silver is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alamos Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alamos Gold pays an annual dividend of $0.10 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 2.1%. Alamos Gold pays out 19.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Pan American Silver pays out -133.3% 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. Pan American Silver is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Alamos Gold has a net margin of 19.41% compared to Alamos Gold's net margin of -5.24%. Pan American Silver's return on equity of 7.43% beat Alamos Gold's return on equity.
Summary
Alamos Gold beats Pan American Silver on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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