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Wheaton Precious Metals is a gold business based in Canada. Wheaton Precious Metals shares (WPM) are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) and all prices are listed in Canadian Dollars.
Its last market close was C$110.03 – an increase of 2.23% over the previous week. Wheaton Precious Metals employs 44 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around C$1.3 billion.Note: The dollar amounts in the table below are in Canadian dollars.
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Latest market close | C$110.03 |
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52-week range | C$63.36 - C$111.37 |
50-day moving average | C$97.90 |
200-day moving average | C$86.64 |
Wall St. target price | C$113.81 |
PE ratio | 66.2831 |
Dividend yield | C$0.62 (0.86%) |
Earnings per share (TTM) | C$1.66 |
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Valuing Wheaton Precious Metals stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Wheaton Precious Metals's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Wheaton Precious Metals's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 66x. In other words, Wheaton Precious Metals shares trade at around 66x recent earnings.
Wheaton Precious Metals's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is C$987 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Wheaton Precious Metals's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
Revenue TTM | C$1.3 billion |
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Operating margin TTM | 32.05% |
Gross profit TTM | C$1 billion |
Return on assets TTM | 5.45% |
Return on equity TTM | 7.43% |
Profit margin | 41.19% |
Book value | C$16.00 |
Market Capitalization | C$49.9 billion |
EBITDA | C$987 million |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Environmental, social and governance (known as ESG) criteria are a set of three factors used to measure the sustainability and social impact of companies like Wheaton Precious Metals.
When it comes to ESG scores, lower is better, and lower scores are generally associated with lower risk for would-be investors.
Total ESG risk: 22.53
Socially conscious investors use ESG scores to screen how an investment aligns with their worldview, and Wheaton Precious Metals's overall score of 22.53 (as at 12/31/2018) is excellent – landing it in it in the 16th percentile of companies rated in the same sector.
ESG scores are increasingly used to estimate the level of risk a company like Wheaton Precious Metals is exposed to within the areas of "environmental" (carbon footprint, resource use etc.), "social" (health and safety, human rights etc.), and "governance" (anti-corruption, tax transparency etc.).
Environmental score: 11.64/100
Wheaton Precious Metals's environmental score of 11.64 puts it squarely in the 8th percentile of companies rated in the same sector. This could suggest that Wheaton Precious Metals is a leader in its sector terms of its environmental impact, and exposed to a lower level of risk.
Social score: 10.41/100
Wheaton Precious Metals's social score of 10.41 puts it squarely in the 8th percentile of companies rated in the same sector. This could suggest that Wheaton Precious Metals is a leader in its sector when it comes to taking good care of its workforce and the communities it impacts.
Governance score: 11.48/100
Wheaton Precious Metals's governance score puts it squarely in the 8th percentile of companies rated in the same sector. That could suggest that Wheaton Precious Metals is a leader in its sector when it comes to responsible management and strategy, and exposed to a lower level of risk.
Controversy score: 2/5
ESG scores also evaluate any incidences of controversy that a company has been involved in. Wheaton Precious Metals scored a 2 out of 5 for controversy – the second-highest score possible, reflecting that Wheaton Precious Metals has, for the most part, managed to keep its nose clean.
Wheaton Precious Metals Corp was last rated for ESG on: 2019-01-01.
Total ESG score | 22.53 |
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Total ESG percentile | 16.48 |
Environmental score | 11.64 |
Environmental score percentile | 8 |
Social score | 10.41 |
Social score percentile | 8 |
Governance score | 11.48 |
Governance score percentile | 8 |
Level of controversy | 2 |
Dividend payout ratio: 38.8% of net profits
Recently Wheaton Precious Metals has paid out, on average, around 0% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Wheaton Precious Metals shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Wheaton Precious Metals's case, that would currently equate to about C$0.62 per share.
While Wheaton Precious Metals's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Wheaton Precious Metals may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.
Wheaton Precious Metals's most recent dividend payout was on 10 April 2025. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their stocks by 31 March 2025 (the "ex-dividend date").
Wheaton Precious Metals's stocks were split on a 1:5 basis on 20 December 2004 . So if you had owned 5 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1 share. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Wheaton Precious Metals stocks – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 400% higher stock price could have impacted the market appetite for Wheaton Precious Metals stocks, which in turn could have impacted Wheaton Precious Metals's stock price.
Over the last 12 months, Wheaton Precious Metals's stocks have ranged in value from as little as C$63.3623 up to C$111.37. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta."
Beta is a measure of a stocks volatility in relation to the market. The market (TO average) beta is 1, while Wheaton Precious Metals's is 0.705. This would suggest that Wheaton Precious Metals's stocks are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
Wheaton Precious Metals Corp. sells precious metals in North America, Europe, Africa, and South America. The company primarily produces and sells gold, silver, palladium, Platinum, and cobalt deposits. The company was formerly known as Silver Wheaton Corp. and changed its name to Wheaton Precious Metals Corp. in May 2017. Wheaton Precious Metals Corp.
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