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Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM) Competitors

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WPM vs. AEM, FNV, GFI, KGC, AU, AGI, PAAS, HMY, OR, and IAG

Should you be buying Wheaton Precious Metals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wheaton Precious Metals include Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM), Franco-Nevada (FNV), 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 IAMGOLD (IAG). These companies are all part of the "precious metals" industry.

Wheaton Precious Metals vs.

Agnico Eagle Mines (NYSE:AEM) and Wheaton Precious Metals (NYSE:WPM) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, risk and community ranking.

In the previous week, Agnico Eagle Mines had 22 more articles in the media than Wheaton Precious Metals. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Agnico Eagle Mines and 10 mentions for Wheaton Precious Metals. Wheaton Precious Metals' average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Agnico Eagle Mines' score of 0.51 indicating that Wheaton Precious Metals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Agnico Eagle Mines
11 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
4 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Wheaton Precious Metals
6 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Wheaton Precious Metals has a net margin of 50.05% compared to Agnico Eagle Mines' net margin of 22.88%. Agnico Eagle Mines' return on equity of 10.45% beat Wheaton Precious Metals' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Agnico Eagle Mines22.88% 10.45% 7.18%
Wheaton Precious Metals 50.05%8.85%8.74%

Agnico Eagle Mines has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wheaton Precious Metals has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Agnico Eagle Mines presently has a consensus target price of $94.63, suggesting a potential downside of 3.45%. Wheaton Precious Metals has a consensus target price of $71.67, suggesting a potential upside of 2.53%. Given Wheaton Precious Metals' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Wheaton Precious Metals is more favorable than Agnico Eagle Mines.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Agnico Eagle Mines
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.86
Wheaton Precious Metals
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
9 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.10

Agnico Eagle Mines received 256 more outperform votes than Wheaton Precious Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.15% of users gave Wheaton Precious Metals an outperform vote while only 57.98% of users gave Agnico Eagle Mines an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Agnico Eagle MinesOutperform Votes
650
57.98%
Underperform Votes
471
42.02%
Wheaton Precious MetalsOutperform Votes
394
62.15%
Underperform Votes
240
37.85%

68.3% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.3% of Wheaton Precious Metals shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are held by 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.

Agnico Eagle Mines has higher revenue and earnings than Wheaton Precious Metals. Agnico Eagle Mines 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Agnico Eagle Mines$8.29B5.95$1.90B$3.7825.93
Wheaton Precious Metals$1.22B26.05$537.64M$1.3452.16

Agnico Eagle Mines pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Wheaton Precious Metals pays an annual dividend of $0.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Agnico Eagle Mines pays out 42.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Wheaton Precious Metals pays out 46.3% 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. Agnico Eagle Mines is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Summary

Wheaton Precious Metals beats Agnico Eagle Mines on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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WPM vs. The Competition

MetricWheaton Precious MetalsGold & silver ores IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$31.71B$4.02B$3.16B$20.28B
Dividend Yield0.92%1.86%5.17%3.66%
P/E Ratio52.1614.17100.1949.36
Price / Sales26.0510.4825,886,820,843,784,400.0016.06
Price / Cash41.5722.0124.3820.99
Price / Book4.532.904.955.22
Net Income$537.64M$18.92M$151.94M$1.02B
7 Day Performance3.43%0.85%0.34%0.77%
1 Month Performance17.50%8.90%3.25%0.45%
1 Year Performance71.58%61.31%34.35%16.41%

Wheaton Precious Metals Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
WPM
Wheaton Precious Metals
3.6426 of 5 stars
$68.65
-1.9%
$71.67
+4.4%
+58.1%$31.17B$1.02B51.2740Analyst Revision
AEM
Agnico Eagle Mines
3.4199 of 5 stars
$95.75
-5.0%
$92.75
-3.1%
+101.6%$48.09B$6.63B47.8715,875Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
High Trading Volume
FNV
Franco-Nevada
3.0045 of 5 stars
$138.37
-3.9%
$146.71
+6.0%
+31.1%$26.64B$1.22B-43.7940Positive News
GFI
Gold Fields
2.8878 of 5 stars
$18.86
-2.7%
$16.45
-12.8%
+40.8%$16.88B$4.50B0.006,297Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
KGC
Kinross Gold
3.8713 of 5 stars
$11.27
-1.3%
$11.63
+3.2%
+127.5%$13.85B$4.24B18.476,600Analyst Revision
AU
AngloGold Ashanti
1.9286 of 5 stars
$32.15
-3.3%
$31.75
-1.3%
+80.3%$13.50B$4.58B0.0012,227Earnings Report
Dividend Increase
Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
Gap Down
AGI
Alamos Gold
3.9001 of 5 stars
$22.28
-3.4%
$26.06
+17.0%
+97.9%$9.37B$1.02B37.141,867Earnings Report
News Coverage
High Trading Volume
PAAS
Pan American Silver
3.4113 of 5 stars
$24.43
-2.6%
$25.92
+6.1%
+96.7%$8.87B$2.32B-143.679,900Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
News Coverage
HMY
Harmony Gold Mining
2.2235 of 5 stars
$11.43
-4.3%
$8.40
-26.5%
+108.8%$7.25B$3.31B0.0043,667Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
Gap Down
OR
Osisko Gold Royalties
3.835 of 5 stars
$19.68
-3.7%
$23.00
+16.9%
+34.9%$3.67B$183.20M-93.7030Earnings Report
Dividend Cut
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
IAG
IAMGOLD
3.5218 of 5 stars
$6.34
-3.0%
$6.57
+3.5%
+145.7%$3.62B$987.10M4.964,341Earnings Report
News Coverage
Gap Down

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