KGC vs. PAAS, AU, AGI, HMY, SBSW, EGO, OR, GFI, FNV, and WPM
Should you be buying Kinross Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kinross Gold include Pan American Silver (PAAS), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), Alamos Gold (AGI), Harmony Gold Mining (HMY), Sibanye Stillwater (SBSW), Eldorado Gold (EGO), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Gold Fields (GFI), Franco-Nevada (FNV), and Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
Pan American Silver (NYSE:PAAS) and Kinross Gold (NYSE:KGC) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk and community ranking.
Kinross Gold has a net margin of 9.82% compared to Kinross Gold's net margin of -5.24%. Pan American Silver's return on equity of 8.85% beat Kinross Gold's return on equity.
Pan American Silver currently has a consensus price target of $21.00, suggesting a potential upside of 11.41%. Kinross Gold has a consensus price target of $6.44, suggesting a potential downside of 9.65%. Given Kinross Gold's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Pan American Silver is more favorable than Kinross Gold.
In the previous week, Kinross Gold had 5 more articles in the media than Pan American Silver. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Kinross Gold and 4 mentions for Pan American Silver. Pan American Silver's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Kinross Gold's score of 0.41 indicating that Kinross Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Pan American Silver pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Kinross Gold pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Pan American Silver pays out -133.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Kinross Gold pays out 35.3% 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. Kinross Gold has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Pan American Silver is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Pan American Silver has a beta of 1.37, indicating that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kinross Gold has a beta of 1.14, indicating that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
55.4% of Pan American Silver shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.7% of Kinross Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 12.9% of Pan American Silver shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Kinross Gold shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Kinross Gold received 88 more outperform votes than Pan American Silver when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.72% of users gave Kinross Gold an outperform vote while only 56.25% of users gave Pan American Silver an outperform vote.
Kinross Gold has higher revenue and earnings than Pan American Silver. Pan American Silver is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kinross Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Kinross Gold beats Pan American Silver on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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