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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 (ABX), Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), Franco-Nevada (FNV), TRX Gold (TNX), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Alamos Gold (AGI), Yamana Gold (YRI), West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) (WFT), and B2Gold (BTO). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Agnico Eagle Mines (TSE:AEM) and Kinross Gold (TSE:K) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends and valuation.
Agnico Eagle Mines pays an annual dividend of C$2.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Kinross Gold pays an annual dividend of C$0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Agnico Eagle Mines pays out 199.1% 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 32.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
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 1.19, suggesting that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Kinross Gold had 6 more articles in the media than Agnico Eagle Mines. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Kinross Gold and 10 mentions for Agnico Eagle Mines. Agnico Eagle Mines' average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Kinross Gold's score of -0.46 indicating that Kinross Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Agnico Eagle Mines currently has a consensus target price of C$97.50, suggesting a potential upside of 4.90%. Kinross Gold has a consensus target price of C$11.88, suggesting a potential upside of 7.27%. Given Agnico Eagle Mines' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Kinross Gold is more favorable than Agnico Eagle Mines.
Kinross Gold received 166 more outperform votes than Agnico Eagle Mines when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.61% of users gave Kinross Gold an outperform vote while only 60.51% of users gave Agnico Eagle Mines an outperform vote.
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.
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 7.06% beat Kinross Gold's return on equity.
71.3% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.1% of Kinross Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Kinross Gold shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Kinross Gold beats Agnico Eagle Mines on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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