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Should you be buying Agnico Eagle Mines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Agnico Eagle Mines include Barrick Gold (ABX), Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), Franco-Nevada (FNV), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Alamos Gold (AGI), iA Financial (IAG), Equinox Gold (EQX), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), IAMGOLD (IMG), and Yamana Gold (YRI). These companies are all part of the "precious metals" industry.
Agnico Eagle Mines vs. Its Competitors
Agnico Eagle Mines (TSE:AEM) and Barrick Gold (TSE:ABX) 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 analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, risk, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.
Agnico Eagle Mines has a beta of 1.01787, indicating that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Barrick Gold has a beta of 0.722701, indicating that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.
53.6% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.9% of Barrick Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Barrick Gold shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Agnico Eagle Mines presently has a consensus target price of C$163.33, indicating a potential downside of 27.45%. Barrick Gold has a consensus target price of C$37.33, indicating a potential downside of 22.54%. Given Barrick Gold's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Barrick Gold is more favorable than Agnico Eagle Mines.
Barrick Gold has a net margin of 13.19% compared to Agnico Eagle Mines' net margin of 12.86%. Barrick Gold's return on equity of 6.90% beat Agnico Eagle Mines' return on equity.
Barrick Gold has higher revenue and earnings than Agnico Eagle Mines. Barrick Gold 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.
Agnico Eagle Mines pays an annual dividend of C$1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Barrick Gold pays an annual dividend of C$0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Agnico Eagle Mines pays out 27.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Barrick Gold pays out 25.2% 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. Barrick Gold is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Barrick Gold had 30 more articles in the media than Agnico Eagle Mines. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for Barrick Gold and 3 mentions for Agnico Eagle Mines. Agnico Eagle Mines' average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Barrick Gold's score of 0.36 indicating that Agnico Eagle Mines is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Barrick Gold beats Agnico Eagle Mines on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:AEM) was last updated on 9/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
