Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, silver royalty holding company Silver Wheaton
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Silver Wheaton's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Silver Wheaton facts
| Headquarters (Founded) | Vancouver, Canada |
| Market Cap | $9.5 billion |
| Industry | Precious metals and minerals |
| Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $730.0 million |
| Management | Co-Founder/CEO Randy Smallwood CFO Gary Brown |
| Return on Equity (Average, Past 3 Years) | 13.0% |
| Cash/Debt | $840.2 million / $78.6 million |
| Dividend Yield | 1.3% |
| Competitors |
Coeur d'Alene Mines Mitsubishi Minerals |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 96% of the 2,659 members who have rated Silver Wheaton believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Earlier this week, one of those bulls, airwaves1065, succinctly summed up the bull case for our community:
Silver is use[d] in so many different applications. Gold gets all the glory but it is silver that shines! [Silver Wheaton] has contracts to buy most of its silver at 4-5 dollars per ounce and, even with silver trading at or under $30 per ounce, that screams profits for the patient investor.
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