GURE vs. ELBM, MGIH, FMST, AUST, ZKIN, CHNR, AUMN, WWR, FSI, and UAMY
Should you be buying Gulf Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gulf Resources include Electra Battery Materials (ELBM), Millennium Group International (MGIH), Foremost Lithium Resource & Technology (FMST), Austin Gold (AUST), ZK International Group (ZKIN), China Natural Resources (CHNR), Golden Minerals (AUMN), Westwater Resources (WWR), Flexible Solutions International (FSI), and United States Antimony (UAMY). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Electra Battery Materials (NASDAQ:ELBM) and Gulf Resources (NASDAQ:GURE) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.
Electra Battery Materials presently has a consensus price target of $1.93, suggesting a potential upside of 338.70%. Given Gulf Resources' higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Electra Battery Materials is more favorable than Gulf Resources.
Gulf Resources has higher revenue and earnings than Electra Battery Materials. Gulf Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Electra Battery Materials, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Gulf Resources had 1 more articles in the media than Electra Battery Materials. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Gulf Resources and 3 mentions for Electra Battery Materials. Electra Battery Materials' average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Gulf Resources' score of 0.16 indicating that Gulf Resources is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Gulf Resources received 118 more outperform votes than Electra Battery Materials when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.24% of users gave Gulf Resources an outperform vote while only 57.14% of users gave Electra Battery Materials an outperform vote.
32.9% of Electra Battery Materials shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.3% of Gulf Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.7% of Electra Battery Materials shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 22.8% of Gulf Resources shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Electra Battery Materials has a beta of 2.69, indicating that its share price is 169% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gulf Resources has a beta of 0.3, indicating that its share price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Electra Battery Materials has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Electra Battery Materials' net margin of -13.66%. Electra Battery Materials' return on equity of -2.14% beat Gulf Resources' return on equity.
Summary
Gulf Resources beats Electra Battery Materials on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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