NEXT vs. WM, GEO, NB, ARA, TMQ, SLR, S, SAU, FURY, and ERD
Should you be buying NextSource Materials stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NextSource Materials include Wallbridge Mining (WM), Geodrill (GEO), NioCorp Developments (NB), Aclara Resources (ARA), Trilogy Metals (TMQ), Solitario Resources (SLR), Sherritt International (S), St. Augustine Gold and Copper (SAU), Fury Gold Mines (FURY), and Erdene Resource Development (ERD). These companies are all part of the "other industrial metals & mining" industry.
NextSource Materials (TSE:NEXT) and Wallbridge Mining (TSE:WM) 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 dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
Wallbridge Mining's return on equity of -3.56% beat NextSource Materials' return on equity.
In the previous week, Wallbridge Mining had 1 more articles in the media than NextSource Materials. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Wallbridge Mining and 0 mentions for NextSource Materials. Wallbridge Mining's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat NextSource Materials' score of 0.00 indicating that Wallbridge Mining is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
NextSource Materials presently has a consensus target price of C$2.50, suggesting a potential upside of 257.14%. Given NextSource Materials' higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe NextSource Materials is more favorable than Wallbridge Mining.
NextSource Materials has a beta of 2.21, meaning that its share price is 121% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wallbridge Mining has a beta of 1.48, meaning that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
NextSource Materials and Wallbridge Mining both received 102 outperform votes by MarketBeat users. However, 74.45% of users gave NextSource Materials an outperform vote while only 67.11% of users gave Wallbridge Mining an outperform vote.
NextSource Materials is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wallbridge Mining, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
0.6% of NextSource Materials shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.0% of Wallbridge Mining shares are held by institutional investors. 48.6% of NextSource Materials shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 17.2% of Wallbridge Mining shares are held by 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
Wallbridge Mining beats NextSource Materials on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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