WPM vs. AEM, FNV, GFI, GOLD, AU, SBSW, KGC, AUY, NEM, and MT
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), Barrick Gold (GOLD), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), Sibanye Stillwater (SBSW), Kinross Gold (KGC), Yamana Gold (AUY), Newmont (NEM), and ArcelorMittal (MT). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
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 superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Agnico Eagle Mines presently has a consensus price target of $70.50, suggesting a potential upside of 36.34%. Wheaton Precious Metals has a consensus price target of $54.38, suggesting a potential upside of 13.00%. Given Agnico Eagle Mines' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Agnico Eagle Mines is more favorable than Wheaton Precious Metals.
Agnico Eagle Mines has higher revenue and earnings than Wheaton Precious Metals. Wheaton Precious Metals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Agnico Eagle Mines, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Wheaton Precious Metals had 1 more articles in the media than Agnico Eagle Mines. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Wheaton Precious Metals and 3 mentions for Agnico Eagle Mines. Wheaton Precious Metals' average media sentiment score of 1.68 beat Agnico Eagle Mines' score of 1.10 indicating that Wheaton Precious Metals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Agnico Eagle Mines received 267 more outperform votes than Wheaton Precious Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.75% of users gave Wheaton Precious Metals an outperform vote while only 57.95% of users gave Agnico Eagle Mines an outperform vote.
58.1% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.0% of Wheaton Precious Metals shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are held 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.
Agnico Eagle Mines pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Wheaton Precious Metals pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Agnico Eagle Mines pays out 106.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Wheaton Precious Metals pays out 40.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Agnico Eagle Mines has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Agnico Eagle Mines is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Agnico Eagle Mines has a beta of 0.77, meaning that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wheaton Precious Metals has a beta of 0.55, meaning that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Wheaton Precious Metals has a net margin of 62.83% compared to Agnico Eagle Mines' net margin of 11.67%. Wheaton Precious Metals' return on equity of 7.76% beat Agnico Eagle Mines' return on equity.
Summary
Agnico Eagle Mines beats Wheaton Precious Metals on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding WPM and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Wheaton Precious Metals Competitors List
