GORO vs. VGZ, USGO, AUST, HYMC, VOXR, TRX, PLG, ODV, CGA, and FEAM
Should you be buying Gold Resource stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gold Resource include Vista Gold (VGZ), U.S. GoldMining (USGO), Austin Gold (AUST), Hycroft Mining (HYMC), Vox Royalty (VOXR), TRX Gold (TRX), Platinum Group Metals (PLG), Osisko Development (ODV), China Green Agriculture (CGA), and 5E Advanced Materials (FEAM). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Gold Resource (NYSE:GORO) and Vista Gold (NYSE:VGZ) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.
18.4% of Gold Resource shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.3% of Vista Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Gold Resource shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of Vista Gold shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Gold Resource and Vista Gold both received 1 outperform votes by MarketBeat users. However, 16.67% of users gave Gold Resource an outperform vote while only 2.33% of users gave Vista Gold an outperform vote.
Vista Gold has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Gold Resource's net margin of -16.39%. Gold Resource's return on equity of -15.48% beat Vista Gold's return on equity.
Gold Resource has a beta of 1.61, indicating that its share price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vista Gold has a beta of 1.66, indicating that its share price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Gold Resource had 1 more articles in the media than Vista Gold. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Gold Resource and 0 mentions for Vista Gold. Gold Resource's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Vista Gold'saverage media sentiment score.
Gold Resource presently has a consensus price target of $1.50, indicating a potential upside of 188.57%. Vista Gold has a consensus price target of $2.50, indicating a potential upside of 363.05%. Given Vista Gold's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Vista Gold is more favorable than Gold Resource.
Vista Gold has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Gold Resource. Vista Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gold Resource, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Vista Gold beats Gold Resource on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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