Reviewing Royal Gold (NASDAQ:RGLD) & Scully Royalty (NYSE:SRL)

Royal Gold (NASDAQ:RGLD – Get Rating) and Scully Royalty (NYSE:SRL – Get Rating) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability and earnings.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Royal Gold and Scully Royalty’s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Royal Gold	$603.21 million	13.60	$238.98 million	$3.61	34.63
Scully Royalty	$63.69 million	1.73	-$18.00 million	N/A	N/A

Royal Gold has higher revenue and earnings than Scully Royalty.

Risk and Volatility

Royal Gold has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Scully Royalty has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Royal Gold and Scully Royalty, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Royal Gold	0	5	4	0	2.44
Scully Royalty	0	0	0	0	N/A

Royal Gold presently has a consensus price target of $141.63, suggesting a potential upside of 13.28%. Given Royal Gold’s higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Royal Gold is more favorable than Scully Royalty.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

78.1% of Royal Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.0% of Scully Royalty shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Royal Gold shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Scully Royalty shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Dividends

Royal Gold pays an annual dividend of $1.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Scully Royalty pays an annual dividend of $0.59 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.9%. Royal Gold pays out 41.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Royal Gold has raised its dividend for 21 consecutive years and Scully Royalty has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.

Profitability

This table compares Royal Gold and Scully Royalty’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Royal Gold	38.80%	8.18%	6.76%
Scully Royalty	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

Royal Gold beats Scully Royalty on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Royal Gold

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Royal Gold, Inc. engages in the acquisition and management of precious metal streams, royalties, and similar interests. It operates through the Acquisition and Management of Stream Interests, and Acquisition and Management of Royalty Interests segments. The Acquisition and Management of Stream Interests segment focuses on metal streams, which are purchase agreements that provide, in exchange for an upfront deposit payment, the right to purchase all or a portion of one or more metals produced, at a price determined for the life of the transaction. The Acquisition and Management of Royalty Interests segment refers to the non-operating interests in mining projects that provide the right to revenue or metals produced from the project. The company was founded by Stanley Dempsey on January 5, 1981 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

About Scully Royalty

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Scully Royalty Ltd. is a merchant bank company, which engages in the provision of financial services and facilitates trading of corporations and institutions. It operates through the Industrial and Merchant Banking segments. The Industrial segment includes projects in resources and services. The Merchant Banking segment consists of the European merchant banking business. The company was founded on June 28, 1951 and is headquartered in Shanghai, China.