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Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM) Competitors

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WPM vs. AEM, FNV, GFI, AU, KGC, AGI, HMY, PAAS, BTG, and IAG

Should you be buying Wheaton Precious Metals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wheaton Precious Metals include Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM), Franco-Nevada (FNV), Gold Fields (GFI), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), Kinross Gold (KGC), Alamos Gold (AGI), Harmony Gold Mining (HMY), Pan American Silver (PAAS), B2Gold (BTG), and IAMGOLD (IAG). These companies are all part of the "precious metals" industry.

Wheaton Precious Metals vs.

Agnico Eagle Mines (NYSE:AEM) and Wheaton Precious Metals (NYSE:WPM) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability and earnings.

Agnico Eagle Mines has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wheaton Precious Metals has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Wheaton Precious Metals has a net margin of 50.05% compared to Agnico Eagle Mines' net margin of 22.88%. Agnico Eagle Mines' return on equity of 10.45% beat Wheaton Precious Metals' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Agnico Eagle Mines22.88% 10.45% 7.18%
Wheaton Precious Metals 50.05%8.85%8.74%

Agnico Eagle Mines received 260 more outperform votes than Wheaton Precious Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.52% of users gave Wheaton Precious Metals an outperform vote while only 58.27% of users gave Agnico Eagle Mines an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Agnico Eagle MinesOutperform Votes
662
58.27%
Underperform Votes
474
41.73%
Wheaton Precious MetalsOutperform Votes
402
62.52%
Underperform Votes
241
37.48%

Agnico Eagle Mines has higher revenue and earnings than Wheaton Precious Metals. Agnico Eagle Mines 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
Agnico Eagle Mines$8.29B7.14$1.90B$4.7025.00
Wheaton Precious Metals$1.28B29.50$537.64M$1.1671.99

In the previous week, Agnico Eagle Mines had 32 more articles in the media than Wheaton Precious Metals. MarketBeat recorded 54 mentions for Agnico Eagle Mines and 22 mentions for Wheaton Precious Metals. Wheaton Precious Metals' average media sentiment score of 1.52 beat Agnico Eagle Mines' score of 0.92 indicating that Wheaton Precious Metals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Agnico Eagle Mines
21 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
8 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Wheaton Precious Metals
14 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

Agnico Eagle Mines presently has a consensus target price of $124.40, indicating a potential upside of 5.87%. Wheaton Precious Metals has a consensus target price of $83.40, indicating a potential downside of 0.13%. Given Agnico Eagle Mines' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Agnico Eagle Mines is more favorable than Wheaton Precious Metals.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Agnico Eagle Mines
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
4 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.17
Wheaton Precious Metals
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
9 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.08

Agnico Eagle Mines pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Wheaton Precious Metals pays an annual dividend of $0.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Agnico Eagle Mines pays out 34.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Wheaton Precious Metals pays out 56.9% 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. Agnico Eagle Mines is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

68.3% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.3% of Wheaton Precious Metals shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Agnico Eagle Mines beats Wheaton Precious Metals on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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WPM vs. The Competition

MetricWheaton Precious MetalsGold & silver ores IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$37.89B$4.81B$3.04B$18.96B
Dividend Yield0.81%2.04%5.18%4.03%
P/E Ratio62.3225.9776.0332.71
Price / Sales29.5010.0825,549,533,275,675,700.0027.84
Price / Cash42.3121.1124.3217.53
Price / Book5.423.275.214.47
Net Income$537.64M$36.57M$155.11M$1.02B
7 Day Performance1.66%-0.69%0.20%0.50%
1 Month Performance8.61%6.95%2.41%-2.83%
1 Year Performance57.69%41.46%17.60%4.36%

Wheaton Precious Metals Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
WPM
Wheaton Precious Metals
4.0064 of 5 stars
$80.99
-3.0%
$83.40
+3.0%
+60.2%$36.75B$1.28B60.4440Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
Gap Down
AEM
Agnico Eagle Mines
3.9931 of 5 stars
$123.59
+1.7%
$124.40
+0.7%
+85.5%$62.20B$8.29B32.7011,800Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Short Interest ↑
Analyst Revision
Gap Down
FNV
Franco-Nevada
2.9388 of 5 stars
$173.43
+1.4%
$162.25
-6.4%
+42.7%$33.39B$1.11B-54.8840Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
Gap Down
GFI
Gold Fields
2.982 of 5 stars
$24.11
+0.5%
$18.56
-23.0%
+39.3%$21.58B$5.20B10.262,610Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Upgrade
Short Interest ↑
Gap Down
AU
AngloGold Ashanti
2.1725 of 5 stars
$44.21
+2.2%
$36.80
-16.8%
+83.2%$18.56B$5.79B13.8212,227Analyst Forecast
Positive News
Gap Down
KGC
Kinross Gold
4.3753 of 5 stars
$14.96
+1.1%
$13.30
-11.1%
+129.2%$18.41B$5.15B19.4337,369Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↓
Positive News
Gap Down
AGI
Alamos Gold
3.7782 of 5 stars
$29.76
+0.6%
$30.38
+2.1%
+93.9%$12.51B$1.35B43.133,310Earnings Report
Short Interest ↑
Gap Down
HMY
Harmony Gold Mining
3.3192 of 5 stars
$17.74
+1.1%
$8.40
-52.6%
+85.9%$11.26B$67.11B10.5047,400Gap Down
PAAS
Pan American Silver
3.4285 of 5 stars
$26.97
-0.8%
$28.50
+5.7%
+36.5%$9.77B$2.82B84.2813,000Gap Down
BTG
B2Gold
3.963 of 5 stars
$3.40
+2.4%
$4.21
+23.9%
+25.6%$4.49B$1.90B-7.084,690Gap Down
High Trading Volume
IAG
IAMGOLD
4.4865 of 5 stars
$7.79
-0.5%
$7.57
-2.9%
+99.2%$4.48B$1.63B5.375,360Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↓
Gap Up

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