AGI vs. HMY, PAAS, KGC, SBSW, HL, EGO, OR, AU, AG, and CDE
Should you be buying Alamos Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alamos Gold include Harmony Gold Mining (HMY), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Kinross Gold (KGC), Sibanye Stillwater (SBSW), Hecla Mining (HL), Eldorado Gold (EGO), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), First Majestic Silver (AG), and Coeur Mining (CDE). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Harmony Gold Mining (NYSE:HMY) and Alamos Gold (NYSE:AGI) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, dividends and community ranking.
31.8% of Harmony Gold Mining shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.3% of Alamos Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.0% of Harmony Gold Mining shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Alamos Gold shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Harmony Gold Mining presently has a consensus price target of $4.90, suggesting a potential downside of 49.80%. Alamos Gold has a consensus price target of $18.15, suggesting a potential upside of 6.20%. Given Harmony Gold Mining's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Alamos Gold is more favorable than Harmony Gold Mining.
Harmony Gold Mining has higher revenue and earnings than Alamos Gold.
Harmony Gold Mining has a beta of 1.7, meaning that its stock price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alamos Gold has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alamos Gold received 103 more outperform votes than Harmony Gold Mining when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.97% of users gave Alamos Gold an outperform vote while only 46.44% of users gave Harmony Gold Mining an outperform vote.
Alamos Gold has a net margin of 19.41% compared to Alamos Gold's net margin of 0.00%. Harmony Gold Mining's return on equity of 7.38% beat Alamos Gold's return on equity.
Harmony Gold Mining pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Alamos Gold pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Alamos Gold pays out 19.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Harmony Gold Mining has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Harmony Gold Mining is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Alamos Gold had 3 more articles in the media than Harmony Gold Mining. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Alamos Gold and 3 mentions for Harmony Gold Mining. Alamos Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Harmony Gold Mining's score of 0.41 indicating that Harmony Gold Mining is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Alamos Gold beats Harmony Gold Mining on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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