HMY vs. GFI, AU, KGC, PAAS, AGI, BTG, SBSW, EGO, OR, and CDE
Should you be buying Harmony Gold Mining stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Harmony Gold Mining include Gold Fields (GFI), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), Kinross Gold (KGC), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Alamos Gold (AGI), B2Gold (BTG), Sibanye Stillwater (SBSW), Eldorado Gold (EGO), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), and Coeur Mining (CDE). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
Gold Fields (NYSE:GFI) and Harmony Gold Mining (NYSE:HMY) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, community ranking and risk.
Gold Fields pays an annual dividend of $0.35 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Harmony Gold Mining pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Gold Fields has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Harmony Gold Mining has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
Gold Fields has higher revenue and earnings than Harmony Gold Mining.
Gold Fields has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Harmony Gold Mining has a beta of 1.7, meaning that its stock price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500.
26.0% of Gold Fields shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.8% of Harmony Gold Mining shares are held by institutional investors. 36.8% of Gold Fields shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.0% of Harmony Gold Mining shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Harmony Gold Mining received 117 more outperform votes than Gold Fields when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 53.98% of users gave Gold Fields an outperform vote while only 46.37% of users gave Harmony Gold Mining an outperform vote.
Gold Fields currently has a consensus target price of $16.00, indicating a potential upside of 1.59%. Harmony Gold Mining has a consensus target price of $5.80, indicating a potential downside of 36.26%. Given Harmony Gold Mining's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Gold Fields is more favorable than Harmony Gold Mining.
In the previous week, Gold Fields and Gold Fields both had 6 articles in the media. Gold Fields' average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Harmony Gold Mining's score of 0.72 indicating that Harmony Gold Mining is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Gold Fields beats Harmony Gold Mining on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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