VGZ vs. IAUX, GROY, ODV, PLG, USGO, VOXR, TRX, HYMC, GORO, and AUST
Should you be buying Vista Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vista Gold include i-80 Gold (IAUX), Gold Royalty (GROY), Osisko Development (ODV), Platinum Group Metals (PLG), U.S. GoldMining (USGO), Vox Royalty (VOXR), TRX Gold (TRX), Hycroft Mining (HYMC), Gold Resource (GORO), and Austin Gold (AUST). These companies are all part of the "precious metals" industry.
Vista Gold vs.
Vista Gold (NYSE:VGZ) and i-80 Gold (NYSE:IAUX) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, profitability and community ranking.
Vista Gold currently has a consensus target price of $2.75, indicating a potential upside of 343.05%. i-80 Gold has a consensus target price of $3.50, indicating a potential upside of 336.79%. Given Vista Gold's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Vista Gold is more favorable than i-80 Gold.
Vista Gold received 4 more outperform votes than i-80 Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 20.00% of users gave i-80 Gold an outperform vote while only 8.93% of users gave Vista Gold an outperform vote.
27.3% of Vista Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.3% of i-80 Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.2% of Vista Gold shares are owned by company 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 a beta of 1.72, meaning that its stock price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, i-80 Gold has a beta of 1.29, meaning that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Vista Gold has higher earnings, but lower revenue than i-80 Gold. i-80 Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vista Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, i-80 Gold had 2 more articles in the media than Vista Gold. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for i-80 Gold and 2 mentions for Vista Gold. Vista Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat i-80 Gold's score of 0.56 indicating that Vista Gold is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Vista Gold has a net margin of 0.00% compared to i-80 Gold's net margin of -231.43%. Vista Gold's return on equity of 93.43% beat i-80 Gold's return on equity.
Summary
Vista Gold beats i-80 Gold on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:VGZ) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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