FNV vs. AEM, WPM, GFI, KGC, AU, AGI, PAAS, HMY, OR, and BTG
Should you be buying Franco-Nevada stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Franco-Nevada include Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM), Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), Gold Fields (GFI), Kinross Gold (KGC), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), Alamos Gold (AGI), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Harmony Gold Mining (HMY), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), and B2Gold (BTG). These companies are all part of the "precious metals" industry.
Franco-Nevada vs.
Agnico Eagle Mines (NYSE:AEM) and Franco-Nevada (NYSE:FNV) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, earnings, dividends and institutional ownership.
Agnico Eagle Mines has higher revenue and earnings than Franco-Nevada. Franco-Nevada is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Agnico Eagle Mines, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Agnico Eagle Mines currently has a consensus target price of $89.13, indicating a potential upside of 4.71%. Franco-Nevada has a consensus target price of $145.33, indicating a potential upside of 15.52%. Given Franco-Nevada's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Franco-Nevada is more favorable than Agnico Eagle Mines.
Agnico Eagle Mines has a net margin of 12.86% compared to Franco-Nevada's net margin of -55.28%. Franco-Nevada's return on equity of 10.55% beat Agnico Eagle Mines' return on equity.
68.3% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.1% of Franco-Nevada shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Franco-Nevada shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Agnico Eagle Mines has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Franco-Nevada has a beta of 0.72, suggesting that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Agnico Eagle Mines pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Franco-Nevada pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Agnico Eagle Mines pays out 80.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Franco-Nevada pays out -45.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, Agnico Eagle Mines had 10 more articles in the media than Franco-Nevada. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Agnico Eagle Mines and 8 mentions for Franco-Nevada. Agnico Eagle Mines' average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Franco-Nevada's score of 0.22 indicating that Agnico Eagle Mines is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Agnico Eagle Mines received 241 more outperform votes than Franco-Nevada when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.83% of users gave Agnico Eagle Mines an outperform vote while only 55.10% of users gave Franco-Nevada an outperform vote.
Summary
Agnico Eagle Mines beats Franco-Nevada on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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