K vs. PAAS, TNX, AGI, BTO, LUG, ELD, OR, PRU, FNV, and WPM
Should you be buying Kinross Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kinross Gold include Pan American Silver (PAAS), TRX Gold (TNX), Alamos Gold (AGI), B2Gold (BTO), Lundin Gold (LUG), Eldorado Gold (ELD), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Perseus Mining (PRU), Franco-Nevada (FNV), and Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Kinross Gold (TSE:K) and Pan American Silver (TSE:PAAS) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking and earnings.
Kinross Gold received 400 more outperform votes than Pan American Silver when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.63% of users gave Kinross Gold an outperform vote while only 67.45% of users gave Pan American Silver an outperform vote.
Kinross Gold pays an annual dividend of C$0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Pan American Silver pays an annual dividend of C$0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Kinross Gold pays out 34.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Pan American Silver pays out -122.7% 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. Pan American Silver is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Kinross Gold has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pan American Silver has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Kinross Gold has a net margin of 9.82% compared to Pan American Silver's net margin of -4.48%. Kinross Gold's return on equity of 6.88% beat Pan American Silver's return on equity.
Kinross Gold has higher revenue and earnings than Pan American Silver. Pan American Silver is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kinross Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
67.8% of Kinross Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.0% of Pan American Silver shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Kinross Gold shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Pan American Silver shares are owned by 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.
In the previous week, Kinross Gold had 3 more articles in the media than Pan American Silver. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Kinross Gold and 1 mentions for Pan American Silver. Kinross Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.11 beat Pan American Silver's score of 0.00 indicating that Kinross Gold is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Kinross Gold currently has a consensus target price of C$10.70, indicating a potential upside of 15.18%. Pan American Silver has a consensus target price of C$29.13, indicating a potential upside of 12.28%. Given Kinross Gold's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Kinross Gold is more favorable than Pan American Silver.
Summary
Kinross Gold beats Pan American Silver on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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