WWR vs. NB, USAU, BVN, LZM, NEXA, BHP, SCCO, RIO, FCX, and VALE
Should you be buying Westwater Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Westwater Resources include NioCorp Developments (NB), U.S. Gold (USAU), Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. (BVN), Lifezone Metals (LZM), Nexa Resources (NEXA), BHP Group (BHP), Southern Copper (SCCO), Rio Tinto Group (RIO), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), and Vale (VALE). These companies are all part of the "metal mining" industry.
NioCorp Developments (NASDAQ:NB) and Westwater Resources (NASDAQ:WWR) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.
Westwater Resources received 335 more outperform votes than NioCorp Developments when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 80.00% of users gave NioCorp Developments an outperform vote while only 65.57% of users gave Westwater Resources an outperform vote.
NioCorp Developments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Westwater Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Westwater Resources' return on equity of 0.00% beat NioCorp Developments' return on equity.
4.0% of NioCorp Developments shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.7% of Westwater Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.7% of NioCorp Developments shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of Westwater Resources shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
NioCorp Developments has a beta of -0.39, indicating that its stock price is 139% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Westwater Resources has a beta of 1.64, indicating that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, NioCorp Developments had 3 more articles in the media than Westwater Resources. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for NioCorp Developments and 2 mentions for Westwater Resources. NioCorp Developments' average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Westwater Resources' score of 0.47 indicating that Westwater Resources is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
NioCorp Developments currently has a consensus target price of $8.50, suggesting a potential upside of 277.78%. Given Westwater Resources' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe NioCorp Developments is more favorable than Westwater Resources.
Summary
Westwater Resources beats NioCorp Developments on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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