RGLD vs. TFPM, CLF, X, FMC, TX, AXTA, GGB, ATI, PAAS, and KGC
Should you be buying Royal Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Royal Gold include Triple Flag Precious Metals (TFPM), Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF), United States Steel (X), FMC (FMC), Ternium (TX), Axalta Coating Systems (AXTA), Gerdau (GGB), ATI (ATI), Pan American Silver (PAAS), and Kinross Gold (KGC). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Triple Flag Precious Metals (NYSE:TFPM) and Royal Gold (NASDAQ:RGLD) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends and profitability.
Triple Flag Precious Metals presently has a consensus target price of $17.25, indicating a potential downside of 0.46%. Royal Gold has a consensus target price of $141.14, indicating a potential upside of 6.02%. Given Triple Flag Precious Metals' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Royal Gold is more favorable than Triple Flag Precious Metals.
Royal Gold has higher revenue and earnings than Triple Flag Precious Metals. Royal Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Triple Flag Precious Metals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Royal Gold received 746 more outperform votes than Triple Flag Precious Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.48% of users gave Royal Gold an outperform vote while only 23.08% of users gave Triple Flag Precious Metals an outperform vote.
Triple Flag Precious Metals pays an annual dividend of $0.21 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Royal Gold pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Triple Flag Precious Metals pays out 110.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Royal Gold pays out 47.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Triple Flag Precious Metals has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Royal Gold has increased its dividend for 24 consecutive years.
Triple Flag Precious Metals has a beta of -0.12, indicating that its share price is 112% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Royal Gold has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
82.9% of Triple Flag Precious Metals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.7% of Royal Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Royal Gold shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Royal Gold had 6 more articles in the media than Triple Flag Precious Metals. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Royal Gold and 11 mentions for Triple Flag Precious Metals. Royal Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Triple Flag Precious Metals' score of 0.90 indicating that Triple Flag Precious Metals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Royal Gold has a net margin of 38.12% compared to Royal Gold's net margin of 17.59%. Triple Flag Precious Metals' return on equity of 7.96% beat Royal Gold's return on equity.
Summary
Royal Gold beats Triple Flag Precious Metals on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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