AGI vs. WPM, FNV, IAG, OR, EQX, NG, SVM, PPTA, NDM, and ODV
Should you be buying Alamos Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alamos Gold include Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), Franco-Nevada (FNV), iA Financial (IAG), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Equinox Gold (EQX), NovaGold Resources (NG), Silvercorp Metals (SVM), Perpetua Resources (PPTA), Northern Dynasty Minerals (NDM), and Osisko Development (ODV). These companies are all part of the "precious metals" industry.
Wheaton Precious Metals (TSE:WPM) and Alamos Gold (TSE:AGI) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and community ranking.
70.0% of Wheaton Precious Metals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.8% of Alamos Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Wheaton Precious Metals shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Alamos Gold shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Wheaton Precious Metals has a net margin of 53.74% compared to Wheaton Precious Metals' net margin of 19.41%. Alamos Gold's return on equity of 8.50% beat Wheaton Precious Metals' return on equity.
Wheaton Precious Metals currently has a consensus price target of C$87.67, indicating a potential upside of 8.69%. Alamos Gold has a consensus price target of C$24.95, indicating a potential upside of 9.29%. Given Wheaton Precious Metals' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Alamos Gold is more favorable than Wheaton Precious Metals.
Alamos Gold received 594 more outperform votes than Wheaton Precious Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.93% of users gave Alamos Gold an outperform vote while only 27.27% of users gave Wheaton Precious Metals an outperform vote.
Wheaton Precious Metals has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alamos Gold has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Wheaton Precious Metals has higher revenue and earnings than Alamos Gold. Alamos Gold 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.
In the previous week, Wheaton Precious Metals had 2 more articles in the media than Alamos Gold. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Wheaton Precious Metals and 8 mentions for Alamos Gold. Alamos Gold's average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat Wheaton Precious Metals' score of 0.24 indicating that Wheaton Precious Metals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Wheaton Precious Metals pays an annual dividend of C$0.85 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Alamos Gold pays an annual dividend of C$0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Wheaton Precious Metals pays out 48.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alamos Gold pays out 19.7% 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.
Summary
Wheaton Precious Metals beats Alamos Gold on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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