PAAS vs. AGI, HMY, KGC, AU, SBSW, OR, AG, CDE, IAG, and GFI
Should you be buying Pan American Silver stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pan American Silver include Alamos Gold (AGI), Harmony Gold Mining (HMY), Kinross Gold (KGC), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), Sibanye Stillwater (SBSW), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), First Majestic Silver (AG), Coeur Mining (CDE), IAMGOLD (IAG), and Gold Fields (GFI). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
Alamos Gold (NYSE:AGI) and Pan American Silver (NYSE:PAAS) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, risk and earnings.
Alamos Gold pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Pan American Silver pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Alamos Gold pays out 19.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Pan American Silver pays out -133.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Pan American Silver is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
64.3% of Alamos Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.4% of Pan American Silver shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Alamos Gold shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.9% of Pan American Silver shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Alamos Gold presently has a consensus price target of $18.15, suggesting a potential upside of 21.32%. Pan American Silver has a consensus price target of $21.00, suggesting a potential upside of 14.22%. Given Pan American Silver's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Alamos Gold is more favorable than Pan American Silver.
Alamos Gold has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pan American Silver has a beta of 1.37, meaning that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alamos Gold has a net margin of 19.41% compared to Alamos Gold's net margin of -5.24%. Pan American Silver's return on equity of 7.38% beat Alamos Gold's return on equity.
Pan American Silver received 93 more outperform votes than Alamos Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.25% of users gave Pan American Silver an outperform vote while only 55.99% of users gave Alamos Gold an outperform vote.
Alamos Gold has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Pan American Silver. Pan American Silver is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alamos Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Alamos Gold and Alamos Gold both had 9 articles in the media. Pan American Silver's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Alamos Gold's score of 0.67 indicating that Alamos Gold is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Alamos Gold beats Pan American Silver on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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