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Should you be buying Kinross Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kinross Gold include Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM), Barrick Gold (ABX), Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), Franco-Nevada (FNV), TRX Gold (TNX), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Alamos Gold (AGI), Yamana Gold (YRI), West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) (WFT), and B2Gold (BTO). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Kinross Gold (TSE:K) and Agnico Eagle Mines (TSE:AEM) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability and risk.
Kinross Gold received 166 more outperform votes than Agnico Eagle Mines when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.61% of users gave Kinross Gold an outperform vote while only 60.51% of users gave Agnico Eagle Mines an outperform vote.
Kinross Gold currently has a consensus target price of C$11.88, indicating a potential upside of 16.65%. Agnico Eagle Mines has a consensus target price of C$97.50, indicating a potential upside of 9.44%. Given Kinross Gold's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Kinross Gold is more favorable than Agnico Eagle Mines.
In the previous week, Agnico Eagle Mines had 8 more articles in the media than Kinross Gold. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Agnico Eagle Mines and 2 mentions for Kinross Gold. Agnico Eagle Mines' average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Kinross Gold's score of 0.68 indicating that Agnico Eagle Mines is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Kinross Gold has a net margin of 9.86% compared to Agnico Eagle Mines' net margin of 6.79%. Kinross Gold's return on equity of 7.06% beat Agnico Eagle Mines' return on equity.
Kinross Gold pays an annual dividend of C$0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Agnico Eagle Mines pays an annual dividend of C$2.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Kinross Gold pays out 32.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Agnico Eagle Mines pays out 199.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Kinross Gold has a beta of 1.19, suggesting that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Agnico Eagle Mines has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
68.1% of Kinross Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.3% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Kinross Gold shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Agnico Eagle Mines has higher revenue and earnings than Kinross Gold. Kinross 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.
Summary
Kinross Gold beats Agnico Eagle Mines on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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