III vs. ARG, NCU, FDY, IE, GRA, VNP, GGD, TBL, AR, and VGCX
Should you be buying Imperial Metals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Imperial Metals include Amerigo Resources (ARG), Nevada Copper (NCU), Faraday Copper (FDY), Ivanhoe Electric (IE), NanoXplore (GRA), 5N Plus (VNP), GoGold Resources (GGD), Taiga Building Products (TBL), Argonaut Gold (AR), and Victoria Gold (VGCX). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Imperial Metals (TSE:III) and Amerigo Resources (TSE:ARG) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, risk, profitability, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and community ranking.
In the previous week, Amerigo Resources had 1 more articles in the media than Imperial Metals. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Amerigo Resources and 3 mentions for Imperial Metals. Imperial Metals' average media sentiment score of 0.39 beat Amerigo Resources' score of -0.06 indicating that Imperial Metals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Amerigo Resources has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Imperial Metals. Imperial Metals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Amerigo Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Amerigo Resources has a net margin of 2.15% compared to Imperial Metals' net margin of -10.66%. Amerigo Resources' return on equity of 3.03% beat Imperial Metals' return on equity.
Imperial Metals has a beta of 1.25, meaning that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amerigo Resources has a beta of 3.29, meaning that its share price is 229% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Imperial Metals received 75 more outperform votes than Amerigo Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.94% of users gave Amerigo Resources an outperform vote while only 53.13% of users gave Imperial Metals an outperform vote.
15.4% of Imperial Metals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.7% of Amerigo Resources shares are held by institutional investors. 49.8% of Imperial Metals shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.9% of Amerigo Resources shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Amerigo Resources beats Imperial Metals on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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