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Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM) Competitors

C$89.19 +0.53 (+0.60%)
(As of 11/22/2024 ET)

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

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), Barrick Gold (ABX), Franco-Nevada (FNV), iA Financial (IAG), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Alamos Gold (AGI), Yamana Gold (YRI), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), IAMGOLD (IMG), and Equinox Gold (EQX). These companies are all part of the "precious metals" industry.

Wheaton Precious Metals vs.

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

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

Agnico Eagle Mines presently has a consensus price target of C$116.00, indicating a potential downside of 1.63%. Wheaton Precious Metals has a consensus price target of C$97.67, indicating a potential upside of 9.50%. Given Wheaton Precious Metals' higher possible upside, analysts plainly 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)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.20
Wheaton Precious Metals
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.14

Agnico Eagle Mines received 491 more outperform votes than Wheaton Precious Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.41% of users gave Agnico Eagle Mines an outperform vote while only 44.44% of users gave Wheaton Precious Metals an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Agnico Eagle MinesOutperform Votes
499
60.41%
Underperform Votes
327
39.59%
Wheaton Precious MetalsOutperform Votes
8
44.44%
Underperform Votes
10
55.56%

Agnico Eagle Mines pays an annual dividend of C$2.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Wheaton Precious Metals pays an annual dividend of C$0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Agnico Eagle Mines pays out 135.6% 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 48.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Agnico Eagle MinesC$7.31B8.08C$619.95MC$1.6073.70
Wheaton Precious MetalsC$1.13B35.81C$571.16MC$1.7351.55

In the previous week, Wheaton Precious Metals had 8 more articles in the media than Agnico Eagle Mines. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Wheaton Precious Metals and 6 mentions for Agnico Eagle Mines. Wheaton Precious Metals' average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Agnico Eagle Mines' score of 0.75 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
3 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Wheaton Precious Metals
6 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Wheaton Precious Metals has a net margin of 50.44% compared to Agnico Eagle Mines' net margin of 8.49%. Wheaton Precious Metals' return on equity of 8.16% beat Agnico Eagle Mines' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Agnico Eagle Mines8.49% 3.10% 3.80%
Wheaton Precious Metals 50.44%8.16%5.35%

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

Summary

Wheaton Precious Metals beats Agnico Eagle Mines on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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WPM vs. The Competition

MetricWheaton Precious MetalsGold IndustryMaterials SectorTSE Exchange
Market CapC$40.46BC$1.49BC$2.97BC$6.26B
Dividend Yield0.97%5.82%5.29%5.44%
P/E Ratio51.55165.61113.4125.75
Price / Sales35.812,883.31599,083.421,455.32
Price / CashN/A21.6323.7684.51
Price / Book5.653.543.202.77
Net IncomeC$571.16MC$2.41MC$151.53MC$290.02M
7 Day Performance7.90%3.10%1.76%2.17%
1 Month Performance-4.44%-5.09%-4.10%0.67%
1 Year PerformanceN/A50.27%23.28%33.15%

Wheaton Precious Metals Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
WPM
Wheaton Precious Metals
2.2169 of 5 stars
C$89.19
+0.6%
C$97.67
+9.5%
N/AC$40.46BC$1.13B51.5540Dividend Cut
AEM
Agnico Eagle Mines
1.6706 of 5 stars
C$116.76
+0.8%
C$116.00
-0.7%
+73.7%C$58.50BC$7.31B72.9811,800Insider Trade
ABX
Barrick Gold
2.301 of 5 stars
C$25.31
+1.1%
C$31.14
+23.0%
+14.8%C$44.29BC$11.83B21.2721,300
FNV
Franco-Nevada
1.0582 of 5 stars
C$172.15
+1.4%
C$189.80
+10.3%
+6.5%C$33.13BC$1.12B-41.0940
IAG
iA Financial
2.2975 of 5 stars
C$135.23
+1.4%
C$129.75
-4.1%
+48.8%C$12.87BC$8.42B18.105,360Insider Trade
High Trading Volume
PAAS
Pan American Silver
2.3355 of 5 stars
C$32.00
+2.0%
C$44.25
+38.3%
+60.2%C$11.62BC$2.57B-56.7013,000Dividend Announcement
Insider Trade
News Coverage
AGI
Alamos Gold
1.0094 of 5 stars
C$26.35
+0.6%
C$25.80
-2.1%
+41.4%C$11.06BC$1.12B38.502,400
YRI
Yamana Gold
N/AN/AN/AN/AC$7.59BC$1.81B-5.7211,600High Trading Volume
OR
Osisko Gold Royalties
0.4729 of 5 stars
C$27.72
0.0%
C$29.63
+6.9%
+47.5%C$5.16BC$252.83M-55.4430
IMG
IAMGOLD
1.8577 of 5 stars
C$7.95
+2.1%
C$7.29
-8.3%
+142.1%C$4.53BC$1.25B24.345,360Insider Trade
News Coverage
EQX
Equinox Gold
N/AC$8.00
+4.4%
N/A+20.3%C$3.63BC$1.09B9.887,730News Coverage

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This page (TSE:WPM) was last updated on 11/23/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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