PPTA vs. SAND, CGAU, SA, SILV, EXK, GATO, TGB, DRD, NFGC, and ARMN
Should you be buying Perpetua Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Perpetua Resources include Sandstorm Gold (SAND), Centerra Gold (CGAU), Seabridge Gold (SA), SilverCrest Metals (SILV), Endeavour Silver (EXK), Gatos Silver (GATO), Taseko Mines (TGB), DRDGOLD (DRD), New Found Gold (NFGC), and Aris Mining (ARMN). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
Sandstorm Gold (NYSE:SAND) and Perpetua Resources (NASDAQ:PPTA) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment and profitability.
Sandstorm Gold has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Perpetua Resources has a beta of 0.22, indicating that its share price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Sandstorm Gold had 1 more articles in the media than Perpetua Resources. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Sandstorm Gold and 1 mentions for Perpetua Resources. Sandstorm Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Perpetua Resources' score of 0.64 indicating that Perpetua Resources is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sandstorm Gold received 27 more outperform votes than Perpetua Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.00% of users gave Perpetua Resources an outperform vote while only 42.57% of users gave Sandstorm Gold an outperform vote.
52.0% of Sandstorm Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.1% of Perpetua Resources shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Sandstorm 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 stock is poised for long-term growth.
Sandstorm Gold has a net margin of 12.24% compared to Sandstorm Gold's net margin of 0.00%. Perpetua Resources' return on equity of 1.52% beat Sandstorm Gold's return on equity.
Sandstorm Gold presently has a consensus target price of $11.05, indicating a potential upside of 94.54%. Perpetua Resources has a consensus target price of $11.63, indicating a potential upside of 69.96%. Given Perpetua Resources' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Sandstorm Gold is more favorable than Perpetua Resources.
Sandstorm Gold has higher revenue and earnings than Perpetua Resources. Perpetua Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sandstorm Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Sandstorm Gold beats Perpetua Resources on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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