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Vista Gold (VGZ) Competitors

C$1.12 0.00 (0.00%)
As of 04/17/2025 09:30 AM Eastern

VGZ vs. FVL, ODV, TMQ, GOLD, PTM, AU, FURY, HAM, LN, and ORV

Should you be buying Vista Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vista Gold include Freegold Ventures (FVL), Osisko Development (ODV), Trilogy Metals (TMQ), GoldMining (GOLD), Platinum Group Metals (PTM), Aurion Resources (AU), Fury Gold Mines (FURY), Highwood Asset Management (HAM), Loncor Gold (LN), and Orvana Minerals (ORV). These companies are all part of the "precious metals" industry.

Vista Gold vs.

Freegold Ventures (TSE:FVL) and Vista Gold (TSE:VGZ) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and profitability.

Vista Gold received 37 more outperform votes than Freegold Ventures when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.87% of users gave Freegold Ventures an outperform vote while only 66.27% of users gave Vista Gold an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Freegold VenturesOutperform Votes
73
68.87%
Underperform Votes
33
31.13%
Vista GoldOutperform Votes
110
66.27%
Underperform Votes
56
33.73%

Freegold Ventures has a beta of 2.52, suggesting that its share price is 152% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vista Gold has a beta of 1.71, suggesting that its share price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500.

6.3% of Freegold Ventures shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.1% of Vista Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 29.8% of Freegold Ventures shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Vista Gold shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Freegold Ventures is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vista Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Freegold VenturesN/AN/A-C$809.92K-C$0.00-305.09
Vista GoldN/AN/AC$7.97MC$0.138.55

Vista Gold's return on equity of 93.43% beat Freegold Ventures' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Freegold VenturesN/A -1.15% -0.68%
Vista Gold N/A 93.43%-28.08%

In the previous week, Freegold Ventures had 1 more articles in the media than Vista Gold. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Freegold Ventures and 0 mentions for Vista Gold. Freegold Ventures' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Vista Gold'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Freegold Ventures Neutral
Vista Gold Neutral

Summary

Vista Gold beats Freegold Ventures on 6 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

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VGZ vs. The Competition

MetricVista GoldGold IndustryMaterials SectorTSE Exchange
Market CapC$96.99MC$1.57BC$2.97BC$5.53B
Dividend Yield0.32%5.99%5.22%6.44%
P/E Ratio8.55367.8875.9229.92
Price / SalesN/A174,304,593,677,619,000.0023,145,364,078,952,100.00583.88
Price / Cash9.3821.9724.3683.35
Price / Book7.215.685.233.53
Net IncomeC$7.97MC$8.80MC$155.39MC$300.83M
1 Month PerformanceN/A8.21%1.45%-3.71%
1 Year Performance49.33%31.49%16.54%11.15%

Vista Gold Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
VGZ
Vista Gold
N/AC$1.12
flat
N/A+49.3%C$96.99MN/A8.5510
FVL
Freegold Ventures
N/AC$1.13
+2.7%
N/A+118.6%C$372.79MN/A-325.243High Trading Volume
ODV
Osisko Development
N/AC$2.39
+3.5%
C$6.17
+158.0%
-25.2%C$326.43MC$18.30M-0.98310Gap Up
TMQ
Trilogy Metals
0.5741 of 5 stars
C$2.17
+8.0%
C$2.38
+9.4%
+282.4%C$245.48MN/A-24.335
GOLD
GoldMining
N/AC$1.16
-1.7%
N/A+0.9%C$226.94MN/A-9.4521,300News Coverage
PTM
Platinum Group Metals
N/AC$1.84
+1.1%
N/A-6.3%C$132.23MN/A-27.0110
AU
Aurion Resources
N/AC$0.79
-4.8%
N/A+14.3%C$117.62MN/A-45.3320,730Gap Up
FURY
Fury Gold Mines
N/AC$0.53
-3.6%
N/A-21.7%C$81.71MN/A-6.0610High Trading Volume
HAM
Highwood Asset Management
N/AC$5.49
+1.3%
N/A-23.8%C$81.47MC$89.30M1.0147,400News Coverage
LN
Loncor Gold
1.9975 of 5 stars
C$0.70
+14.8%
C$1.57
+124.3%
+62.2%C$76.10MN/A-2.3430News Coverage
High Trading Volume
ORV
Orvana Minerals
N/AC$0.63
+5.0%
N/A+215.0%C$62.19MC$65.25M-12.56710News Coverage
High Trading Volume

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This page (TSE:VGZ) was last updated on 4/19/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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