AGNICO EAGLE MINES LIMITED vs BHP GROUP LIMITED, two Mining stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
78.9 against 205.5: the market caps, and the smaller company is the purer bet: Agnico Eagle mines gold almost exclusively, BHP runs the diversified giant's book of iron ore, copper, and coal. The gold specialist currently earns the fatter bottom line, a 37.5% net margin against 21.7%, and the market prices the diversification dearer anyway, 22.8 times earnings against 17.7. Returns on equity favor BHP slightly, 21.3% against 18%. Both are effectively debt-free, rare across mining history and normal in this cycle. The pair prices focus against breadth in extraction: gold's monetary bid on one page, the industrial-metals complex on the other.
Comparison updated 2026-07-10.
| Metric | AEM | BHP |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $157.18 | $81.00 |
| Market cap | $78.9B | $205.5B |
| Sector | Mining | Mining |
| Stage | Cyclical | Cyclical |
| Implied growth (priced in) | — | +4.2% |
| P/E | 17.7 | 22.8 |
| P/B | 3.19 | 3.93 |
| P/S | 6.63 | 4.01 |
| EV/EBITDA | — | 7.7 |
| Revenue growth | +33.1% | -1.8% |
| Operating margin | — | 38.0% |
| Net margin | 37.5% | 21.7% |
| Return on equity | 18.0% | 21.3% |
| Return on assets | 12.9% | 10.2% |
| Return on invested capital | — | 22.6% |
| FCF yield | 5.6% | 4.5% |
| Dividend yield | 0.4% | — |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 2.02 | 1.46 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 5.52 | 3.87 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 6 / 9 |
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