USAU vs. OPNT, AMLI, ASM, NB, WWR, BVN, LZM, NEXA, BHP, and SCCO
Should you be buying U.S. Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of U.S. Gold include Opiant Pharmaceuticals (OPNT), American Lithium (AMLI), Avino Silver & Gold Mines (ASM), NioCorp Developments (NB), Westwater Resources (WWR), Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. (BVN), Lifezone Metals (LZM), Nexa Resources (NEXA), BHP Group (BHP), and Southern Copper (SCCO).
Opiant Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:OPNT) and U.S. Gold (NASDAQ:USAU) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.
Opiant Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, U.S. Gold has a beta of 1.38, meaning that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Opiant Pharmaceuticals received 64 more outperform votes than U.S. Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.93% of users gave U.S. Gold an outperform vote while only 64.23% of users gave Opiant Pharmaceuticals an outperform vote.
42.4% of Opiant Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.6% of U.S. Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 25.2% of Opiant Pharmaceuticals shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.8% of U.S. Gold shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
U.S. Gold has a net margin of 0.00% compared to U.S. Gold's net margin of -147.90%. Opiant Pharmaceuticals' return on equity of -40.73% beat U.S. Gold's return on equity.
U.S. Gold has a consensus price target of $14.50, suggesting a potential upside of 160.79%.
In the previous week, U.S. Gold had 12 more articles in the media than Opiant Pharmaceuticals. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for U.S. Gold and 0 mentions for Opiant Pharmaceuticals. Opiant Pharmaceuticals' average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat U.S. Gold's score of 0.00 indicating that U.S. Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Opiant Pharmaceuticals has higher revenue and earnings than U.S. Gold. U.S. Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Opiant Pharmaceuticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
U.S. Gold beats Opiant Pharmaceuticals on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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