WWR vs. NB, USAU, BVN, LZM, NEXA, BHP, SCCO, RIO, FCX, and VALE
Should you be buying Westwater Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Westwater Resources include NioCorp Developments (NB), U.S. Gold (USAU), Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. (BVN), Lifezone Metals (LZM), Nexa Resources (NEXA), BHP Group (BHP), Southern Copper (SCCO), Rio Tinto Group (RIO), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), and Vale (VALE). These companies are all part of the "metal mining" industry.
Westwater Resources (NASDAQ:WWR) and NioCorp Developments (NASDAQ:NB) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, media sentiment and dividends.
NioCorp Developments has a consensus target price of $8.50, indicating a potential upside of 260.17%. Given NioCorp Developments' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe NioCorp Developments is more favorable than Westwater Resources.
NioCorp Developments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Westwater Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Westwater Resources has a beta of 1.64, suggesting that its share price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NioCorp Developments has a beta of -0.39, suggesting that its share price is 139% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Westwater Resources and Westwater Resources both had 1 articles in the media. NioCorp Developments' average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Westwater Resources' score of 0.00 indicating that NioCorp Developments is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
7.7% of Westwater Resources shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.0% of NioCorp Developments shares are held by institutional investors. 2.4% of Westwater Resources shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 18.7% of NioCorp Developments shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
NioCorp Developments' return on equity of 0.00% beat Westwater Resources' return on equity.
Westwater Resources received 335 more outperform votes than NioCorp Developments when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 80.00% of users gave NioCorp Developments an outperform vote while only 65.57% of users gave Westwater Resources an outperform vote.
Summary
Westwater Resources beats NioCorp Developments on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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