NG vs. WPM, IAG, AUY, BTG, SFR, TRX, NAK, EGI, IMG, and EDG
Should you be buying National Grid stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of National Grid include Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG), Yamana Gold (AUY), BTG (BTG), Severfield (SFR), Tissue Regenix Group (TRX), Nakama Group plc (NAK.L) (NAK), (EGI.L) (EGI), 532753 (IMG.L) (IMG), and 651814 (EDG.L) (EDG). These companies are all part of the "precious metals" industry.
National Grid vs.
Wheaton Precious Metals (LON:WPM) and National Grid (LON:NG) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
69.8% of Wheaton Precious Metals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.4% of National Grid shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Wheaton Precious Metals shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of National Grid shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
National Grid has higher revenue and earnings than Wheaton Precious Metals. National Grid is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wheaton Precious Metals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, National Grid had 9 more articles in the media than Wheaton Precious Metals. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for National Grid and 1 mentions for Wheaton Precious Metals. Wheaton Precious Metals' average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat National Grid's score of -0.50 indicating that Wheaton Precious Metals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Wheaton Precious Metals pays an annual dividend of GBX 47 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. National Grid pays an annual dividend of GBX 57 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. Wheaton Precious Metals pays out 4,895.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. National Grid pays out 10,363.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
National Grid received 12 more outperform votes than Wheaton Precious Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Wheaton Precious Metals an outperform vote while only 70.37% of users gave National Grid an outperform vote.
Wheaton Precious Metals has a beta of 0.7, indicating that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, National Grid has a beta of 0.25, indicating that its share price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Wheaton Precious Metals presently has a consensus price target of GBX 5,200, indicating a potential upside of 9.36%. National Grid has a consensus price target of GBX 1,181.25, indicating a potential upside of 22.64%. Given National Grid's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe National Grid is more favorable than Wheaton Precious Metals.
Wheaton Precious Metals has a net margin of 50.44% compared to National Grid's net margin of 11.54%. Wheaton Precious Metals' return on equity of 8.16% beat National Grid's return on equity.
Summary
Wheaton Precious Metals beats National Grid on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:NG) was last updated on 1/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
