WPM vs. FNV, GFI, AEM, GOLD, AU, KGC, PAAS, AGI, NEM, and STLD
Should you be buying Wheaton Precious Metals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wheaton Precious Metals include Franco-Nevada (FNV), Gold Fields (GFI), Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM), Barrick Gold (GOLD), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), Kinross Gold (KGC), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Alamos Gold (AGI), Newmont (NEM), and Steel Dynamics (STLD). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Franco-Nevada (NYSE:FNV) and Wheaton Precious Metals (NYSE:WPM) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, community ranking and media sentiment.
Franco-Nevada currently has a consensus price target of $147.40, indicating a potential upside of 21.38%. Wheaton Precious Metals has a consensus price target of $53.10, indicating a potential upside of 0.85%. Given Wheaton Precious Metals' higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Franco-Nevada is more favorable than Wheaton Precious Metals.
77.1% of Franco-Nevada shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.3% of Wheaton Precious Metals shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Franco-Nevada shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Franco-Nevada has a beta of 0.71, meaning that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wheaton Precious Metals has a beta of 0.77, meaning that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Franco-Nevada had 6 more articles in the media than Wheaton Precious Metals. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Franco-Nevada and 4 mentions for Wheaton Precious Metals. Franco-Nevada's average media sentiment score of 1.42 beat Wheaton Precious Metals' score of 0.85 indicating that Wheaton Precious Metals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Wheaton Precious Metals has a net margin of 52.92% compared to Wheaton Precious Metals' net margin of -38.26%. Wheaton Precious Metals' return on equity of 10.61% beat Franco-Nevada's return on equity.
Wheaton Precious Metals has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Franco-Nevada. Franco-Nevada 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.
Franco-Nevada received 18 more outperform votes than Wheaton Precious Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.30% of users gave Wheaton Precious Metals an outperform vote while only 55.24% of users gave Franco-Nevada an outperform vote.
Franco-Nevada pays an annual dividend of $1.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Wheaton Precious Metals pays an annual dividend of $0.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Franco-Nevada pays out -56.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Wheaton Precious Metals pays out 52.1% 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. Franco-Nevada has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years and Wheaton Precious Metals has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Summary
Wheaton Precious Metals beats Franco-Nevada on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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