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Should you be buying Pan American Silver stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pan American Silver include Barrick Gold (ABX), Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), Franco-Nevada (FNV), Kinross Gold (K), Alamos Gold (AGI), Yamana Gold (YRI), West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) (WFT), B2Gold (BTO), Lundin Gold (LUG), and Eldorado Gold (ELD). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Pan American Silver (TSE:PAAS) and Barrick Gold (TSE:ABX) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk and institutional ownership.
Pan American Silver currently has a consensus target price of C$29.31, indicating a potential downside of 2.32%. Barrick Gold has a consensus target price of C$29.73, indicating a potential upside of 27.86%. Given Barrick Gold's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Barrick Gold is more favorable than Pan American Silver.
Barrick Gold has a net margin of 12.58% compared to Pan American Silver's net margin of -5.97%. Barrick Gold's return on equity of 6.83% beat Pan American Silver's return on equity.
In the previous week, Barrick Gold had 8 more articles in the media than Pan American Silver. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Barrick Gold and 5 mentions for Pan American Silver. Barrick Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Pan American Silver's score of 0.67 indicating that Barrick Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Barrick Gold received 360 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 63.59% of users gave Barrick Gold an outperform vote.
63.3% of Pan American Silver shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.6% of Barrick Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Pan American Silver shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Barrick Gold shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Barrick Gold has higher revenue and earnings than Pan American Silver. Pan American Silver is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Barrick Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Pan American Silver pays an annual dividend of C$0.55 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Barrick Gold pays an annual dividend of C$0.55 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Pan American Silver pays out -83.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Barrick Gold pays out 48.7% 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 has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Barrick Gold has a beta of 0.46, meaning that its stock price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Barrick Gold beats Pan American Silver on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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