USAU vs. WWR, NB, ASM, AMLI, GORO, HYFM, CGA, LODE, VGZ, and USGO
Should you be buying U.S. Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of U.S. Gold include Westwater Resources (WWR), NioCorp Developments (NB), Avino Silver & Gold Mines (ASM), American Lithium (AMLI), Gold Resource (GORO), Hydrofarm Holdings Group (HYFM), China Green Agriculture (CGA), Comstock (LODE), Vista Gold (VGZ), and U.S. GoldMining (USGO). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Westwater Resources (NASDAQ:WWR) and U.S. Gold (NASDAQ:USAU) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, valuation and earnings.
U.S. Gold's return on equity of -5.96% beat Westwater Resources' return on equity.
U.S. Gold has a consensus price target of $14.50, suggesting a potential upside of 143.70%. Given Westwater Resources' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe U.S. Gold is more favorable than Westwater Resources.
In the previous week, Westwater Resources and Westwater Resources both had 8 articles in the media. Westwater Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat U.S. Gold's score of 0.62 indicating that U.S. Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
7.7% of Westwater Resources shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.6% of U.S. Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 2.4% of Westwater Resources shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.8% of U.S. Gold shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Westwater Resources has a beta of 1.64, meaning that its share price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, U.S. Gold has a beta of 1.19, meaning that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
U.S. Gold 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 received 140 more outperform votes than U.S. Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.82% of users gave U.S. Gold an outperform vote while only 65.83% of users gave Westwater Resources an outperform vote.
Summary
Westwater Resources beats U.S. Gold on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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