TRX vs. PPTA, SKE, VZLA, GROY, PLG, ODV, VOXR, USGO, HYMC, and VGZ
Should you be buying TRX Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TRX Gold include Perpetua Resources (PPTA), Skeena Resources (SKE), Vizsla Silver (VZLA), Gold Royalty (GROY), Platinum Group Metals (PLG), Osisko Development (ODV), Vox Royalty (VOXR), U.S. GoldMining (USGO), Hycroft Mining (HYMC), and Vista Gold (VGZ). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
TRX Gold (NYSE:TRX) and Perpetua Resources (NASDAQ:PPTA) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
TRX Gold has higher revenue and earnings than Perpetua Resources. Perpetua Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TRX Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Perpetua Resources received 14 more outperform votes than TRX Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.00% of users gave Perpetua Resources an outperform vote while only 4.00% of users gave TRX Gold an outperform vote.
1.1% of TRX Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.1% of Perpetua Resources shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of TRX Gold shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Perpetua Resources shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
TRX Gold has a beta of 0.52, indicating that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Perpetua Resources has a beta of 0.31, indicating that its stock price is 69% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, TRX Gold had 1 more articles in the media than Perpetua Resources. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for TRX Gold and 0 mentions for Perpetua Resources. TRX Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Perpetua Resources' score of 0.00 indicating that TRX Gold is being referred to more favorably in the media.
TRX Gold has a net margin of 0.70% compared to Perpetua Resources' net margin of 0.00%. TRX Gold's return on equity of -1.66% beat Perpetua Resources' return on equity.
TRX Gold presently has a consensus target price of $1.58, indicating a potential upside of 257.22%. Perpetua Resources has a consensus target price of $11.63, indicating a potential upside of 75.60%. Given TRX Gold's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe TRX Gold is more favorable than Perpetua Resources.
Summary
TRX Gold beats Perpetua Resources on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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