DRD vs. NFGC, GATO, TGB, EXK, ARMN, MUX, PPTA, VZLA, ODV, and CGAU
Should you be buying DRDGOLD stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DRDGOLD include New Found Gold (NFGC), Gatos Silver (GATO), Taseko Mines (TGB), Endeavour Silver (EXK), Aris Mining (ARMN), McEwen Mining (MUX), Perpetua Resources (PPTA), Vizsla Silver (VZLA), Osisko Development (ODV), and Centerra Gold (CGAU). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
New Found Gold (NYSE:NFGC) and DRDGOLD (NYSE:DRD) 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 dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, valuation and profitability.
DRDGOLD has higher revenue and earnings than New Found Gold.
New Found Gold presently has a consensus price target of $9.00, suggesting a potential upside of 150.70%. DRDGOLD has a consensus price target of $13.25, suggesting a potential upside of 65.63%. Given DRDGOLD's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe New Found Gold is more favorable than DRDGOLD.
New Found Gold has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DRDGOLD has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
DRDGOLD received 174 more outperform votes than New Found Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave New Found Gold an outperform vote while only 60.26% of users gave DRDGOLD an outperform vote.
3.4% of New Found Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.7% of DRDGOLD shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of DRDGOLD shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
New Found Gold's return on equity of 0.00% beat DRDGOLD's return on equity.
In the previous week, DRDGOLD had 1 more articles in the media than New Found Gold. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for DRDGOLD and 1 mentions for New Found Gold. DRDGOLD's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat New Found Gold's score of 1.31 indicating that New Found Gold is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
DRDGOLD beats New Found Gold on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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