SAND vs. HMY, PAAS, OR, BTG, SBSW, EGO, IAG, AG, FSM, and SILV
Should you be buying Sandstorm Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sandstorm Gold include Harmony Gold Mining (HMY), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), B2Gold (BTG), Sibanye Stillwater (SBSW), Eldorado Gold (EGO), IAMGOLD (IAG), First Majestic Silver (AG), Fortuna Silver Mines (FSM), and SilverCrest Metals (SILV). These companies are all part of the "precious metals" industry.
Sandstorm Gold vs.
Sandstorm Gold (NYSE:SAND) and Harmony Gold Mining (NYSE:HMY) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, profitability and dividends.
Sandstorm Gold currently has a consensus target price of $9.25, indicating a potential upside of 2.83%. Harmony Gold Mining has a consensus target price of $8.40, indicating a potential downside of 42.36%. Given Sandstorm Gold's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Sandstorm Gold is more favorable than Harmony Gold Mining.
Harmony Gold Mining has higher revenue and earnings than Sandstorm Gold. Harmony Gold Mining is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sandstorm Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sandstorm Gold has a beta of 0.46, suggesting that its stock price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Harmony Gold Mining has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Harmony Gold Mining had 2 more articles in the media than Sandstorm Gold. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Harmony Gold Mining and 3 mentions for Sandstorm Gold. Harmony Gold Mining's average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat Sandstorm Gold's score of 0.42 indicating that Harmony Gold Mining is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
52.0% of Sandstorm Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.8% of Harmony Gold Mining shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Sandstorm Gold shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.0% of Harmony Gold Mining shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Harmony Gold Mining received 245 more outperform votes than Sandstorm Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 46.77% of users gave Sandstorm Gold an outperform vote while only 46.05% of users gave Harmony Gold Mining an outperform vote.
Sandstorm Gold has a net margin of 8.11% compared to Harmony Gold Mining's net margin of 0.00%. Sandstorm Gold's return on equity of 0.98% beat Harmony Gold Mining's return on equity.
Sandstorm Gold pays an annual dividend of $0.05 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Harmony Gold Mining pays an annual dividend of $0.19 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Sandstorm Gold pays out 50.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Harmony Gold Mining pays out 11.2% 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. Harmony Gold Mining is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Sandstorm Gold and Harmony Gold Mining tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:SAND) was last updated on 6/11/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
