GOLD vs. AEM, WPM, FNV, GFI, NEM, AU, KGC, PPG, NTR, and LYB
Should you be buying Barrick Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Barrick Gold include Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM), Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), Franco-Nevada (FNV), Gold Fields (GFI), Newmont (NEM), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), Kinross Gold (KGC), PPG Industries (PPG), Nutrien (NTR), and LyondellBasell Industries (LYB). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Agnico Eagle Mines (NYSE:AEM) and Barrick Gold (NYSE:GOLD) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and risk.
68.3% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.8% of Barrick Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Barrick Gold shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Barrick Gold received 142 more outperform votes than Agnico Eagle Mines when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.79% of users gave Agnico Eagle Mines an outperform vote while only 56.77% of users gave Barrick Gold an outperform vote.
Agnico Eagle Mines currently has a consensus price target of $69.63, suggesting a potential upside of 5.05%. Barrick Gold has a consensus price target of $21.60, suggesting a potential upside of 29.19%. Given Agnico Eagle Mines' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Barrick Gold is more favorable than Agnico Eagle Mines.
Agnico Eagle Mines has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Barrick Gold has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Agnico Eagle Mines has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Barrick Gold. Barrick 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.
Barrick Gold has a net margin of 12.58% compared to Barrick Gold's net margin of 6.79%. Barrick Gold's return on equity of 6.09% beat Agnico Eagle Mines' return on equity.
Agnico Eagle Mines pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Barrick Gold pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. 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. Barrick Gold pays out 48.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, Barrick Gold had 12 more articles in the media than Agnico Eagle Mines. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Barrick Gold and 17 mentions for Agnico Eagle Mines. Barrick Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Agnico Eagle Mines' score of 0.55 indicating that Agnico Eagle Mines is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Agnico Eagle Mines beats Barrick Gold on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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