Wishbone Gold (WSBN) Competitors

Pure Gold Mining (LON:PUR) and Wishbone Gold (LON:WSBN) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of PUR or WSBN?

15.7% of Pure Gold Mining shares are held by institutional investors. 27.6% of Pure Gold Mining shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.0% of Wishbone Gold shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in PUR or WSBN?

Pure Gold Mining received 32 more outperform votes than Wishbone Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 79.59% of users gave Pure Gold Mining an outperform vote while only 59.44% of users gave Wishbone Gold an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Pure Gold Mining	Outperform Votes 117 79.59%	Underperform Votes 30 20.41%
Wishbone Gold	Outperform Votes 85 59.44%	Underperform Votes 58 40.56%

Do analysts rate PUR or WSBN?

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Pure Gold Mining	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A
Wishbone Gold	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A

Which has higher earnings & valuation, PUR or WSBN?

Wishbone Gold has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Pure Gold Mining.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Pure Gold Mining	£38.39M	0.11	-£72.52M	-£5.70	-0.11
Wishbone Gold	N/A	N/A	-£1.27M	N/A	N/A

Does the media refer more to PUR or WSBN?

In the previous week, Wishbone Gold had 2 more articles in the media than Pure Gold Mining. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Wishbone Gold and 0 mentions for Pure Gold Mining. Pure Gold Mining's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Wishbone Gold'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Pure Gold Mining	Neutral
Wishbone Gold	Neutral

Is PUR or WSBN more profitable?

Wishbone Gold has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Pure Gold Mining's net margin of -188.89%. Wishbone Gold's return on equity of -20.87% beat Pure Gold Mining's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Pure Gold Mining	-188.89%	-129.12%	-10.16%
Wishbone Gold	N/A	-20.87%	-11.59%

Which has more volatility & risk, PUR or WSBN?

Pure Gold Mining has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wishbone Gold has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Pure Gold Mining beats Wishbone Gold on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.