RGLD vs. NEM, TFPM, SSRM, SRL, MSB, DD, NUE, GOLD, DOW, and VNTR
Should you be buying Royal Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Royal Gold include Newmont (NEM), Triple Flag Precious Metals (TFPM), SSR Mining (SSRM), Scully Royalty (SRL), Mesabi Trust (MSB), DuPont de Nemours (DD), Nucor (NUE), Barrick Gold (GOLD), DOW (DOW), and Venator Materials (VNTR).
Royal Gold vs.
Newmont (NYSE:NEM) and Royal Gold (NASDAQ:RGLD) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and media sentiment.
Newmont pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Royal Gold pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Newmont pays out -65.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Royal Gold pays out 36.7% 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. Royal Gold has raised its dividend for 24 consecutive years. Newmont is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Royal Gold has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Newmont. Newmont is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Royal Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Newmont currently has a consensus price target of $54.85, suggesting a potential upside of 27.59%. Royal Gold has a consensus price target of $165.43, suggesting a potential upside of 11.32%. Given Newmont's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Newmont is more favorable than Royal Gold.
68.9% of Newmont shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.7% of Royal Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Newmont shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Royal Gold shares are held 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.
Royal Gold has a net margin of 42.93% compared to Newmont's net margin of -7.03%. Royal Gold's return on equity of 10.18% beat Newmont's return on equity.
Newmont has a beta of 0.51, indicating that its share price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Royal Gold has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Newmont had 8 more articles in the media than Royal Gold. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Newmont and 11 mentions for Royal Gold. Newmont's average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat Royal Gold's score of 0.74 indicating that Newmont is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Newmont received 164 more outperform votes than Royal Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.02% of users gave Royal Gold an outperform vote while only 63.35% of users gave Newmont an outperform vote.
Summary
Royal Gold beats Newmont on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:RGLD) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
