CGA vs. USAU, GORO, HYFM, LODE, VNTR, FEAM, FSI, WWR, UAMY, and ZKIN
Should you be buying China Green Agriculture stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of China Green Agriculture include U.S. Gold (USAU), Gold Resource (GORO), Hydrofarm Holdings Group (HYFM), Comstock (LODE), Venator Materials (VNTR), 5E Advanced Materials (FEAM), Flexible Solutions International (FSI), Westwater Resources (WWR), United States Antimony (UAMY), and ZK International Group (ZKIN). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
China Green Agriculture (NYSE:CGA) and U.S. Gold (NASDAQ:USAU) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends and risk.
In the previous week, U.S. Gold had 6 more articles in the media than China Green Agriculture. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for U.S. Gold and 2 mentions for China Green Agriculture. China Green Agriculture's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat U.S. Gold's score of 0.35 indicating that China Green Agriculture is being referred to more favorably in the media.
U.S. Gold received 6 more outperform votes than China Green Agriculture when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.82% of users gave U.S. Gold an outperform vote while only 55.78% of users gave China Green Agriculture an outperform vote.
0.1% of China Green Agriculture shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.6% of U.S. Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 34.3% of China Green Agriculture shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.6% of U.S. Gold shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
U.S. Gold has a consensus price target of $14.50, suggesting a potential upside of 215.22%. Given U.S. Gold's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe U.S. Gold is more favorable than China Green Agriculture.
China Green Agriculture has a beta of 0.47, meaning that its share price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, U.S. Gold has a beta of 1.19, meaning that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
U.S. Gold has a net margin of 0.00% compared to China Green Agriculture's net margin of -14.54%. China Green Agriculture's return on equity of -12.68% beat U.S. Gold's return on equity.
U.S. Gold has lower revenue, but higher earnings than China Green Agriculture. U.S. Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than China Green Agriculture, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
U.S. Gold beats China Green Agriculture on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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