HMY vs. AGI, PAAS, SBSW, KGC, EGO, OR, AG, AU, CDE, and IAG
Should you be buying Harmony Gold Mining stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Harmony Gold Mining include Alamos Gold (AGI), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Sibanye Stillwater (SBSW), Kinross Gold (KGC), Eldorado Gold (EGO), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), First Majestic Silver (AG), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), Coeur Mining (CDE), and IAMGOLD (IAG). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
Alamos Gold (NYSE:AGI) and Harmony Gold Mining (NYSE:HMY) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, risk and community ranking.
In the previous week, Alamos Gold had 18 more articles in the media than Harmony Gold Mining. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Alamos Gold and 2 mentions for Harmony Gold Mining. Harmony Gold Mining's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Alamos Gold's score of 0.57 indicating that Alamos Gold is being referred to more favorably in the media.
64.3% of Alamos Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.8% of Harmony Gold Mining shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Alamos Gold shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.0% of Harmony Gold Mining shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Alamos Gold has a net margin of 19.41% compared to Alamos Gold's net margin of 0.00%. Harmony Gold Mining's return on equity of 7.43% beat Alamos Gold's return on equity.
Alamos Gold received 102 more outperform votes than Harmony Gold Mining when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.99% of users gave Alamos Gold an outperform vote while only 46.44% of users gave Harmony Gold Mining an outperform vote.
Alamos Gold pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Harmony Gold Mining pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Alamos Gold pays out 19.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Harmony Gold Mining has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Harmony Gold Mining is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Harmony Gold Mining has higher revenue and earnings than Alamos Gold.
Alamos Gold presently has a consensus target price of $18.15, suggesting a potential upside of 18.63%. Harmony Gold Mining has a consensus target price of $4.90, suggesting a potential downside of 45.37%. Given Harmony Gold Mining's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Alamos Gold is more favorable than Harmony Gold Mining.
Alamos Gold has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Harmony Gold Mining has a beta of 1.71, indicating that its stock price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Alamos Gold beats Harmony Gold Mining on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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