RGLD vs. NEM, TFPM, SSRM, MSB, SRL, DD, VNTR, VNTRQ, NUE, and GOLD
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), Mesabi Trust (MSB), Scully Royalty (SRL), DuPont de Nemours (DD), Venator Materials (VNTR), Venator Materials (VNTRQ), Nucor (NUE), and Barrick Gold (GOLD).
Royal Gold vs.
Newmont (NYSE:NEM) and Royal Gold (NASDAQ:RGLD) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership and community ranking.
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.
In the previous week, Newmont had 5 more articles in the media than Royal Gold. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Newmont and 5 mentions for Royal Gold. Newmont's average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Royal Gold's score of 0.98 indicating that Newmont is being referred to more favorably in the media.
68.8% 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 insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Royal Gold shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Newmont has a beta of 0.49, suggesting that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Royal Gold has a beta of 0.89, suggesting that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Newmont received 165 more outperform votes than Royal Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.02% of users gave Royal Gold an outperform vote while only 63.33% of users gave Newmont an outperform vote.
Newmont pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Royal Gold pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Newmont pays out -65.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Royal Gold pays out 41.3% 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. Newmont is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Newmont presently has a consensus price target of $54.31, indicating a potential upside of 41.87%. Royal Gold has a consensus price target of $165.43, indicating a potential upside of 23.63%. Given Newmont's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Newmont is more favorable than Royal Gold.
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.
Summary
Royal Gold beats Newmont on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:RGLD) was last updated on 12/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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