FVL vs. POM, SKE, AOT, GLO, AMC, SLI, WRN, NOU, ETG, and EMX
Should you be buying Freegold Ventures stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Freegold Ventures include PolyMet Mining (POM), Skeena Resources (SKE), Ascot Resources (AOT), Global Atomic (GLO), Arizona Metals (AMC), Standard Lithium (SLI), Western Copper and Gold (WRN), Nouveau Monde Graphite (NOU), Entrée Resources (ETG), and EMX Royalty (EMX). These companies are all part of the "other industrial metals & mining" industry.
Freegold Ventures (TSE:FVL) and PolyMet Mining (TSE:POM) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and dividends.
Freegold Ventures is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PolyMet Mining, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Freegold Ventures has a beta of 2.36, meaning that its share price is 136% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PolyMet Mining has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Freegold Ventures pays an annual dividend of C$0.13 per share and has a dividend yield of 30.2%. PolyMet Mining pays an annual dividend of C$1.08 per share. Freegold Ventures pays out -1,300.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PolyMet Mining pays out -400.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Freegold Ventures is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
5.9% of Freegold Ventures shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.7% of PolyMet Mining shares are held by institutional investors. 29.0% of Freegold Ventures shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 82.5% of PolyMet Mining 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, Freegold Ventures' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled PolyMet Mining'saverage media sentiment score.
Freegold Ventures' return on equity of -3.73% beat PolyMet Mining's return on equity.
Freegold Ventures received 7 more outperform votes than PolyMet Mining when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.87% of users gave Freegold Ventures an outperform vote while only 60.55% of users gave PolyMet Mining an outperform vote.
Summary
Freegold Ventures beats PolyMet Mining on 9 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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