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Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM) Competitors

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C$155.91 +2.12 (+1.38%)
As of 03/31/2025 04:17 PM Eastern

AEM vs. WPM, ABX, FNV, IAG, AGI, PAAS, YRI, OR, IMG, and AG

Should you be buying Agnico Eagle Mines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Agnico Eagle Mines include Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), Barrick Gold (ABX), Franco-Nevada (FNV), iA Financial (IAG), Alamos Gold (AGI), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Yamana Gold (YRI), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), IAMGOLD (IMG), and First Majestic Silver (AG). These companies are all part of the "precious metals" industry.

Agnico Eagle Mines vs.

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

Agnico Eagle Mines presently has a consensus price target of C$128.71, indicating a potential downside of 17.44%. Wheaton Precious Metals has a consensus price target of C$98.38, indicating a potential downside of 11.91%. Given Wheaton Precious Metals' 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)
0 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
3 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.43
Wheaton Precious Metals
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
3 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.33

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 MinesC$5.52B9.99C$709.54MC$2.8554.78
Wheaton Precious MetalsC$851.18M41.61C$426.03MC$1.9258.11

Agnico Eagle Mines has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wheaton Precious Metals has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Wheaton Precious Metals has a net margin of 50.05% compared to Agnico Eagle Mines' net margin of 12.86%. Wheaton Precious Metals' return on equity of 8.56% beat Agnico Eagle Mines' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Agnico Eagle Mines12.86% 5.05% 3.80%
Wheaton Precious Metals 50.05%8.56%5.35%

In the previous week, Agnico Eagle Mines had 3 more articles in the media than Wheaton Precious Metals. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Agnico Eagle Mines and 5 mentions for Wheaton Precious Metals. Wheaton Precious Metals' average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat Agnico Eagle Mines' score of -0.32 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
2 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Wheaton Precious Metals
3 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Agnico Eagle Mines received 489 more outperform votes than Wheaton Precious Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.60% of users gave Agnico Eagle Mines an outperform vote while only 58.33% of users gave Wheaton Precious Metals an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Agnico Eagle MinesOutperform Votes
503
60.60%
Underperform Votes
327
39.40%
Wheaton Precious MetalsOutperform Votes
14
58.33%
Underperform Votes
10
41.67%

70.9% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.4% of Wheaton Precious Metals shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Wheaton Precious Metals shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Agnico Eagle Mines pays an annual dividend of C$2.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Wheaton Precious Metals pays an annual dividend of C$0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Agnico Eagle Mines pays out 76.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Wheaton Precious Metals pays out 43.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Summary

Agnico Eagle Mines and Wheaton Precious Metals tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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AEM vs. The Competition

MetricAgnico Eagle MinesGold IndustryMaterials SectorTSE Exchange
Market CapC$55.13BC$1.47BC$3.06BC$5.67B
Dividend Yield1.08%5.99%5.14%6.44%
P/E Ratio54.78359.6376.9130.93
Price / Sales9.99183,988,182,215,264,000.0024,351,377,058,436,000.00615.45
Price / Cash36.3921.9724.3483.21
Price / Book3.815.545.073.59
Net IncomeC$709.54MC$8.80MC$153.99MC$299.69M
7 Day Performance4.50%1.59%-0.31%-1.56%
1 Month Performance11.87%7.54%5.40%-0.05%
1 Year Performance93.03%38.93%19.14%14.90%

Agnico Eagle Mines Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AEM
Agnico Eagle Mines
0.8715 of 5 stars
C$155.91
+1.4%
C$128.71
-17.4%
+93.0%C$55.13BC$5.52B54.7811,800Insider Trade
News Coverage
WPM
Wheaton Precious Metals
1.6502 of 5 stars
C$107.30
-0.3%
C$98.38
-8.3%
+75.0%C$34.03BC$851.18M55.8340Dividend Cut
Analyst Revision
Positive News
ABX
Barrick Gold
3.2709 of 5 stars
C$27.08
+0.1%
C$31.55
+16.5%
+24.0%C$32.91BC$8.51B20.3921,300
FNV
Franco-Nevada
0.6094 of 5 stars
C$223.10
-0.2%
C$194.10
-13.0%
+40.2%C$30.27BC$769.64M-48.1840
IAG
iA Financial
1.9228 of 5 stars
C$136.45
+1.6%
C$140.75
+3.2%
+62.4%C$12.80BC$14.46B13.005,360
AGI
Alamos Gold
0.7429 of 5 stars
C$36.75
-1.7%
C$34.78
-5.4%
+92.5%C$10.87BC$879.15M43.762,400
PAAS
Pan American Silver
1.4108 of 5 stars
C$37.04
+0.4%
C$45.25
+22.2%
+82.0%C$9.45BC$1.88B-198.5913,000News Coverage
YRI
Yamana Gold
N/AN/AN/AN/AC$7.59BC$1.81B-5.7211,600High Trading Volume
OR
Osisko Gold Royalties
0.3998 of 5 stars
C$29.44
+1.0%
C$30.88
+4.9%
+36.6%C$5.50BC$248.46M-100.0230News Coverage
IMG
IAMGOLD
1.476 of 5 stars
C$8.51
-1.6%
C$8.68
+1.9%
+98.7%C$3.46BC$1.12B4.425,360
AG
First Majestic Silver
0.0544 of 5 stars
C$9.96
+0.2%
C$7.25
-27.2%
N/AC$3.37BC$621.80M-25.825,290
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This page (TSE:AEM) was last updated on 4/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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