GORO vs. VGZ, USGO, AUST, HYMC, VOXR, TRX, PLG, USAU, HYFM, and CGA
Should you be buying Gold Resource stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gold Resource include Vista Gold (VGZ), U.S. GoldMining (USGO), Austin Gold (AUST), Hycroft Mining (HYMC), Vox Royalty (VOXR), TRX Gold (TRX), Platinum Group Metals (PLG), U.S. Gold (USAU), Hydrofarm Holdings Group (HYFM), and China Green Agriculture (CGA). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Vista Gold (NYSE:VGZ) and Gold Resource (NYSE:GORO) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, community ranking, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.
Vista Gold currently has a consensus target price of $2.50, indicating a potential upside of 360.91%. Gold Resource has a consensus target price of $1.50, indicating a potential upside of 187.91%. Given Gold Resource's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Vista Gold is more favorable than Gold Resource.
27.3% of Vista Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.4% of Gold Resource shares are held by institutional investors. 4.2% of Vista Gold shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Gold Resource shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Vista Gold has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Gold Resource. Vista Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gold Resource, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Vista Gold has a beta of 1.71, suggesting that its stock price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gold Resource has a beta of 1.58, suggesting that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Vista Gold had 2 more articles in the media than Gold Resource. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Vista Gold and 1 mentions for Gold Resource. Vista Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat Gold Resource's score of 0.00 indicating that Gold Resource is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Vista Gold and Gold Resource both received 1 outperform votes by MarketBeat users. However, 12.50% of users gave Gold Resource an outperform vote while only 2.22% of users gave Vista Gold an outperform vote.
Vista Gold has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Vista Gold's net margin of -22.30%. Vista Gold's return on equity of -19.21% beat Gold Resource's return on equity.
Summary
Vista Gold beats Gold Resource on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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