Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM) Competitors

Agnico Eagle Mines (TSE:AEM) and Wheaton Precious Metals (TSE:WPM) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking and profitability.

Do insiders & institutionals believe in AEM or WPM?

70.9% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.4% of Wheaton Precious Metals shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Wheaton Precious Metals 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.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer AEM or WPM?

Agnico Eagle Mines received 490 more outperform votes than Wheaton Precious Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.48% of users gave Agnico Eagle Mines an outperform vote while only 57.69% of users gave Wheaton Precious Metals an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Agnico Eagle Mines	Outperform Votes 505 60.48%	Underperform Votes 330 39.52%
Wheaton Precious Metals	Outperform Votes 15 57.69%	Underperform Votes 11 42.31%

Is AEM or WPM a better dividend stock?

Agnico Eagle Mines pays an annual dividend of C$2.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Wheaton Precious Metals pays an annual dividend of C$0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Agnico Eagle Mines pays out 76.2% 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 43.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Do analysts recommend AEM or WPM?

Agnico Eagle Mines presently has a consensus price target of C$139.67, indicating a potential downside of 10.33%. Wheaton Precious Metals has a consensus price target of C$106.00, indicating a potential downside of 5.58%. Given Wheaton Precious Metals' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Wheaton Precious Metals is more favorable than Agnico Eagle Mines.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Agnico Eagle Mines	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	4 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.38
Wheaton Precious Metals	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	4 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.44

Which has higher valuation & earnings, AEM or WPM?

Agnico Eagle Mines has higher revenue and earnings than Wheaton Precious Metals. Agnico Eagle Mines 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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Agnico Eagle Mines	C$5.52B	9.98	C$709.54M	C$2.85	54.72
Wheaton Precious Metals	C$851.18M	41.82	C$426.03M	C$1.92	58.41

Does the media prefer AEM or WPM?

In the previous week, Agnico Eagle Mines had 28 more articles in the media than Wheaton Precious Metals. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for Agnico Eagle Mines and 5 mentions for Wheaton Precious Metals. Wheaton Precious Metals' average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Agnico Eagle Mines' score of 0.88 indicating that Wheaton Precious Metals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Agnico Eagle Mines	7 Very Positive mention(s)	5 Positive mention(s)	5 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Wheaton Precious Metals	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Is AEM or WPM more profitable?

Wheaton Precious Metals has a net margin of 50.05% compared to Agnico Eagle Mines' net margin of 12.86%. Wheaton Precious Metals' return on equity of 8.56% beat Agnico Eagle Mines' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Agnico Eagle Mines	12.86%	5.05%	3.80%
Wheaton Precious Metals	50.05%	8.56%	5.35%

Which has more volatility and risk, AEM or WPM?

Agnico Eagle Mines has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wheaton Precious Metals has a beta of 0.7, indicating that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Wheaton Precious Metals beats Agnico Eagle Mines on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.