WPM vs. NG, IAG, AUY, BTG, SFR, TRX, NAK, EGI, IMG, and EDG
Should you be buying Wheaton Precious Metals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wheaton Precious Metals include National Grid (NG), 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.
Wheaton Precious Metals vs.
Wheaton Precious Metals (LON:WPM) and National Grid (LON:NG) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation and earnings.
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.
Wheaton Precious Metals has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, National Grid has a beta of 0.25, meaning that its share price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500.
69.8% of Wheaton Precious Metals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.4% of National Grid shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Wheaton Precious Metals shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of National Grid shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, National Grid had 4 more articles in the media than Wheaton Precious Metals. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for National Grid and 0 mentions for Wheaton Precious Metals. Wheaton Precious Metals' average media sentiment score of 1.58 beat National Grid's score of -0.09 indicating that Wheaton Precious Metals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Wheaton Precious Metals presently has a consensus target price of GBX 5,200, suggesting a potential upside of 2.36%. National Grid has a consensus target price of GBX 1,181.25, suggesting a potential upside of 18.86%. Given National Grid's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe National Grid is more favorable than Wheaton Precious Metals.
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.
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 pays an annual dividend of GBX 47 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. National Grid pays an annual dividend of GBX 57 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.7%. 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.
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:WPM) was last updated on 11/23/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff