NEXT vs. AT, RMP, HOU, EAS, SXE, SRE, NRN, HE, FE, and NEE
Should you be buying NextSource Materials stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NextSource Materials include AcuityAds (AT), RMP Energy (RMP), BetaPro Crude Oil Daily Bull ETF (HOU), Baru Gold Corp. (EAS.V) (EAS), Strata-X Energy (SXE), Saville Resources (SRE), Northern Shield Resources (NRN), Hanwei Energy Services (HE), First Energy Metals (FE), and Northern Vertex Mining (NEE). These companies are all part of the "utilities" industry.
NextSource Materials vs. Its Competitors
AcuityAds (TSE:AT) and NextSource Materials (TSE:NEXT) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, risk, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, profitability and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, NextSource Materials had 3 more articles in the media than AcuityAds. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for NextSource Materials and 0 mentions for AcuityAds. NextSource Materials' average media sentiment score of 0.15 beat AcuityAds' score of 0.00 indicating that NextSource Materials is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
13.2% of AcuityAds shares are held by institutional investors. 11.9% of AcuityAds shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 48.6% of NextSource Materials 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.
NextSource Materials has a net margin of 0.00% compared to AcuityAds' net margin of -0.62%. AcuityAds' return on equity of -0.70% beat NextSource Materials' return on equity.
Given AcuityAds' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe AcuityAds is more favorable than NextSource Materials.
AcuityAds has a beta of 2.28, meaning that its share price is 128% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NextSource Materials has a beta of 2.1, meaning that its share price is 110% more volatile than the S&P 500.
AcuityAds has higher revenue and earnings than NextSource Materials. NextSource Materials is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AcuityAds, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
AcuityAds beats NextSource Materials on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of TSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (TSE:NEXT) was last updated on 8/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
