AGI vs. PAAS, K, BTO, LUG, ELD, TNX, OR, EQX, PRU, and IMG
Should you be buying Alamos Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alamos Gold include Pan American Silver (PAAS), Kinross Gold (K), B2Gold (BTO), Lundin Gold (LUG), Eldorado Gold (ELD), TRX Gold (TNX), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Equinox Gold (EQX), Perseus Mining (PRU), and IAMGOLD (IMG). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Pan American Silver (TSE:PAAS) and Alamos Gold (TSE:AGI) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability, earnings and media sentiment.
Pan American Silver has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alamos Gold has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alamos Gold has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
62.1% of Pan American Silver shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.5% of Alamos Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Pan American Silver shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Alamos Gold shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Alamos Gold had 6 more articles in the media than Pan American Silver. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Alamos Gold and 5 mentions for Pan American Silver. Alamos Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Pan American Silver's score of 0.45 indicating that Pan American Silver is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Pan American Silver pays an annual dividend of C$0.55 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Alamos Gold pays an annual dividend of C$0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Pan American Silver pays out -83.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alamos Gold pays out 19.7% 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.
Pan American Silver currently has a consensus target price of C$29.31, indicating a potential downside of 0.37%. Alamos Gold has a consensus target price of C$22.55, indicating a potential downside of 3.05%. Given Alamos Gold's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Pan American Silver is more favorable than Alamos Gold.
Alamos Gold has a net margin of 19.41% compared to Alamos Gold's net margin of -5.97%. Pan American Silver's return on equity of 7.12% beat Alamos Gold's return on equity.
Alamos Gold received 335 more outperform votes than Pan American Silver when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.53% of users gave Pan American Silver an outperform vote while only 61.98% of users gave Alamos Gold an outperform vote.
Summary
Alamos Gold beats Pan American Silver on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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