WPM vs. AUY, EDV, CEY, HGM, ACA, HOC, RSG, PAF, GGP, and AMRQ
Should you be buying Wheaton Precious Metals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wheaton Precious Metals include Yamana Gold (AUY), Endeavour Mining (EDV), Centamin (CEY), Highland Gold Mining Limited (HGM.L) (HGM), Acacia Mining (ACA), Hochschild Mining (HOC), Resolute Mining (RSG), Pan African Resources (PAF), Greatland Gold (GGP), and Amaroq Minerals (AMRQ). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Yamana Gold (LON:AUY) and Wheaton Precious Metals (LON:WPM) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Wheaton Precious Metals has a net margin of 53.74% compared to Wheaton Precious Metals' net margin of -54.36%. Yamana Gold's return on equity of 8.50% beat Wheaton Precious Metals' return on equity.
Wheaton Precious Metals has a consensus price target of GBX 5,100, indicating a potential upside of 10.39%.
Yamana Gold pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share. Wheaton Precious Metals pays an annual dividend of GBX 50 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Yamana Gold pays out -1,204.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Wheaton Precious Metals pays out 4,902.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Yamana Gold has a beta of 1.29, suggesting that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wheaton Precious Metals has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Wheaton Precious Metals had 2 more articles in the media than Yamana Gold. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Wheaton Precious Metals and 0 mentions for Yamana Gold. Yamana Gold's average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat Wheaton Precious Metals' score of 0.00 indicating that Wheaton Precious Metals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Wheaton Precious Metals has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Yamana Gold. Yamana 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.
63.8% of Yamana Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.0% of Wheaton Precious Metals shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Yamana Gold 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, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Yamana Gold received 16 more outperform votes than Wheaton Precious Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Wheaton Precious Metals an outperform vote while only 95.45% of users gave Yamana Gold an outperform vote.
Summary
Wheaton Precious Metals beats Yamana Gold on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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