KGC vs. AEM, GOLD, WPM, FNV, GFI, AU, PAAS, AGI, HMY, and BTG
Should you be buying Kinross Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kinross Gold include Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM), Barrick Gold (GOLD), Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), Franco-Nevada (FNV), Gold Fields (GFI), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Alamos Gold (AGI), Harmony Gold Mining (HMY), and B2Gold (BTG). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
Agnico Eagle Mines (NYSE:AEM) and Kinross Gold (NYSE:KGC) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and earnings.
Agnico Eagle Mines has higher revenue and earnings than Kinross Gold. Kinross Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Agnico Eagle Mines, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Agnico Eagle Mines presently has a consensus target price of $72.22, suggesting a potential upside of 5.88%. Kinross Gold has a consensus target price of $7.59, suggesting a potential downside of 6.61%. Given Kinross Gold's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Agnico Eagle Mines is more favorable than Kinross Gold.
Agnico Eagle Mines pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Kinross Gold pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Agnico Eagle Mines pays out 168.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Kinross Gold pays out 33.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Kinross Gold has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Kinross Gold has a net margin of 9.86% compared to Kinross Gold's net margin of 6.79%. Agnico Eagle Mines' return on equity of 9.34% beat Kinross Gold's return on equity.
In the previous week, Kinross Gold had 11 more articles in the media than Agnico Eagle Mines. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Kinross Gold and 15 mentions for Agnico Eagle Mines. Agnico Eagle Mines' average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Kinross Gold's score of 0.56 indicating that Kinross Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Agnico Eagle Mines received 54 more outperform votes than Kinross Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.87% of users gave Agnico Eagle Mines an outperform vote while only 57.79% of users gave Kinross Gold an outperform vote.
68.3% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.7% of Kinross Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Kinross Gold shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Agnico Eagle Mines has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kinross Gold has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Agnico Eagle Mines beats Kinross Gold on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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