NB vs. DC, AMLI, ASM, USAU, WWR, BVN, LZM, NEXA, BHP, and SCCO
Should you be buying NioCorp Developments stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NioCorp Developments include Dakota Gold (DC), American Lithium (AMLI), Avino Silver & Gold Mines (ASM), U.S. Gold (USAU), Westwater Resources (WWR), Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. (BVN), Lifezone Metals (LZM), Nexa Resources (NEXA), BHP Group (BHP), and Southern Copper (SCCO). These companies are all part of the "metal mining" industry.
Dakota Gold (NYSE:DC) and NioCorp Developments (NASDAQ:NB) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings and institutional ownership.
NioCorp Developments has a consensus price target of $8.50, suggesting a potential upside of 325.00%. Given Dakota Gold's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe NioCorp Developments is more favorable than Dakota Gold.
NioCorp Developments received 2 more outperform votes than Dakota Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Dakota Gold an outperform vote while only 80.00% of users gave NioCorp Developments an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Dakota Gold had 1 more articles in the media than NioCorp Developments. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Dakota Gold and 0 mentions for NioCorp Developments. NioCorp Developments' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Dakota Gold'saverage media sentiment score.
Dakota Gold has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NioCorp Developments has a beta of -0.29, suggesting that its share price is 129% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Dakota Gold's return on equity of 0.00% beat NioCorp Developments' return on equity.
Dakota Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NioCorp Developments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
37.4% of Dakota Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.0% of NioCorp Developments shares are held by institutional investors. 26.0% of Dakota Gold shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 18.7% of NioCorp Developments shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Dakota Gold beats NioCorp Developments on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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