GFI vs. NEM, AEM, GOLD, WPM, FNV, AU, KGC, PAAS, AGI, and HMY
Should you be buying Gold Fields stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gold Fields include Newmont (NEM), Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM), Barrick Gold (GOLD), Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), Franco-Nevada (FNV), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), Kinross Gold (KGC), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Alamos Gold (AGI), and Harmony Gold Mining (HMY). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
Newmont (NYSE:NEM) and Gold Fields (NYSE:GFI) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and valuation.
In the previous week, Newmont had 16 more articles in the media than Gold Fields. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Newmont and 6 mentions for Gold Fields. Newmont's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Gold Fields' score of 0.58 indicating that Gold Fields is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Newmont presently has a consensus price target of $48.36, suggesting a potential upside of 15.30%. Gold Fields has a consensus price target of $16.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1.59%. Given Gold Fields' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Newmont is more favorable than Gold Fields.
Newmont received 725 more outperform votes than Gold Fields when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.28% of users gave Newmont an outperform vote while only 53.98% of users gave Gold Fields an outperform vote.
Newmont pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Gold Fields pays an annual dividend of $0.35 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Newmont pays out -37.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Gold Fields has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Gold Fields has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Newmont.
Gold Fields has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Gold Fields' net margin of -20.19%. Gold Fields' return on equity of 6.88% beat Newmont's return on equity.
Newmont has a beta of 0.48, suggesting that its share price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gold Fields has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
68.9% of Newmont shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.0% of Gold Fields shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Newmont shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 36.8% of Gold Fields shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Newmont beats Gold Fields on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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