NFGC vs. SILV, FSM, CGAU, SA, GATO, SKE, EXK, DRD, PPTA, and TGB
Should you be buying New Found Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of New Found Gold include SilverCrest Metals (SILV), Fortuna Silver Mines (FSM), Centerra Gold (CGAU), Seabridge Gold (SA), Gatos Silver (GATO), Skeena Resources (SKE), Endeavour Silver (EXK), DRDGOLD (DRD), Perpetua Resources (PPTA), and Taseko Mines (TGB). These companies are all part of the "precious metals" industry.
New Found Gold vs.
SilverCrest Metals (NYSE:SILV) and New Found Gold (NYSE:NFGC) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends and media sentiment.
New Found Gold received 7 more outperform votes than SilverCrest Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 100.00% of users gave New Found Gold an outperform vote while only 20.00% of users gave SilverCrest Metals an outperform vote.
SilverCrest Metals has higher revenue and earnings than New Found Gold. New Found Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SilverCrest Metals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SilverCrest Metals has a beta of 1.2, indicating that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New Found Gold has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SilverCrest Metals presently has a consensus price target of $10.13, suggesting a potential upside of 2.69%. New Found Gold has a consensus price target of $9.00, suggesting a potential upside of 426.32%. Given New Found Gold's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe New Found Gold is more favorable than SilverCrest Metals.
SilverCrest Metals has a net margin of 30.85% compared to New Found Gold's net margin of 0.00%. SilverCrest Metals' return on equity of 23.35% beat New Found Gold's return on equity.
44.8% of SilverCrest Metals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.4% of New Found Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 4.1% of SilverCrest Metals shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, SilverCrest Metals had 7 more articles in the media than New Found Gold. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for SilverCrest Metals and 0 mentions for New Found Gold. SilverCrest Metals' average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat New Found Gold's score of 0.00 indicating that SilverCrest Metals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
SilverCrest Metals beats New Found Gold on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:NFGC) was last updated on 1/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
