SAND vs. AGI, HMY, BTG, SBSW, EGO, OR, IAG, CDE, AG, and FSM
Should you be buying Sandstorm Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sandstorm Gold include Alamos Gold (AGI), Harmony Gold Mining (HMY), B2Gold (BTG), Sibanye Stillwater (SBSW), Eldorado Gold (EGO), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), IAMGOLD (IAG), Coeur Mining (CDE), First Majestic Silver (AG), and Fortuna Silver Mines (FSM). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
Alamos Gold (NYSE:AGI) and Sandstorm Gold (NYSE:SAND) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment and dividends.
Alamos Gold has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sandstorm Gold has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alamos Gold presently has a consensus target price of $18.15, suggesting a potential upside of 8.62%. Sandstorm Gold has a consensus target price of $11.05, suggesting a potential upside of 94.54%. Given Alamos Gold's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sandstorm Gold is more favorable than Alamos Gold.
Alamos Gold pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Sandstorm Gold pays an annual dividend of $0.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Alamos Gold pays out 19.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sandstorm Gold pays out 75.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Sandstorm Gold has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Sandstorm Gold is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
64.3% of Alamos Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.0% of Sandstorm Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Alamos Gold shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Sandstorm Gold shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Alamos Gold has higher revenue and earnings than Sandstorm Gold. Alamos Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sandstorm Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alamos Gold received 360 more outperform votes than Sandstorm Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.97% of users gave Alamos Gold an outperform vote while only 42.57% of users gave Sandstorm Gold an outperform vote.
Alamos Gold has a net margin of 19.41% compared to Alamos Gold's net margin of 12.24%. Sandstorm Gold's return on equity of 7.38% beat Alamos Gold's return on equity.
In the previous week, Alamos Gold had 6 more articles in the media than Sandstorm Gold. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Alamos Gold and 2 mentions for Sandstorm Gold. Alamos Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Sandstorm Gold's score of 0.61 indicating that Sandstorm Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Alamos Gold beats Sandstorm Gold on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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