PAAS vs. AGI, TNX, K, BTO, LUG, OR, ELD, IMG, PRU, and EQX
Should you be buying Pan American Silver stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pan American Silver include Alamos Gold (AGI), TRX Gold (TNX), Kinross Gold (K), B2Gold (BTO), Lundin Gold (LUG), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Eldorado Gold (ELD), IAMGOLD (IMG), Perseus Mining (PRU), and Equinox Gold (EQX). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Alamos Gold (TSE:AGI) and Pan American Silver (TSE:PAAS) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, valuation and profitability.
Alamos Gold pays an annual dividend of C$0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Pan American Silver pays an annual dividend of C$0.55 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Alamos Gold pays out 19.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Pan American Silver pays out -83.3% 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. Pan American Silver is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Alamos Gold received 335 more outperform votes than Pan American Silver when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.53% of users gave Pan American Silver an outperform vote while only 61.98% of users gave Alamos Gold an outperform vote.
69.5% of Alamos Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.1% of Pan American Silver shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Alamos Gold shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Pan American Silver shares are held by company 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.
Alamos Gold presently has a consensus price target of C$22.55, suggesting a potential downside of 3.05%. Pan American Silver has a consensus price target of C$29.31, suggesting a potential downside of 0.37%. Given Alamos Gold's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Pan American Silver is more favorable than Alamos Gold.
Alamos Gold has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Pan American Silver. Pan American Silver is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alamos Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alamos Gold has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pan American Silver has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alamos Gold has a net margin of 19.41% compared to Alamos Gold's net margin of -5.97%. Pan American Silver's return on equity of 7.12% beat Alamos Gold's return on equity.
In the previous week, Alamos Gold had 5 more articles in the media than Pan American Silver. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Alamos Gold and 5 mentions for Pan American Silver. Alamos Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Pan American Silver's score of 0.37 indicating that Pan American Silver is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Alamos Gold beats Pan American Silver on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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