DRD vs. TGB, GATO, EXK, NFGC, ARMN, MUX, PPTA, VZLA, ODV, and SA
Should you be buying DRDGOLD stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DRDGOLD include Taseko Mines (TGB), Gatos Silver (GATO), Endeavour Silver (EXK), New Found Gold (NFGC), Aris Mining (ARMN), McEwen Mining (MUX), Perpetua Resources (PPTA), Vizsla Silver (VZLA), Osisko Development (ODV), and Seabridge Gold (SA). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
Taseko Mines (NYSE:TGB) and DRDGOLD (NYSE:DRD) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Taseko Mines presently has a consensus target price of $2.83, suggesting a potential upside of 19.05%. DRDGOLD has a consensus target price of $13.25, suggesting a potential upside of 69.01%. Given Taseko Mines' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe DRDGOLD is more favorable than Taseko Mines.
DRDGOLD received 180 more outperform votes than Taseko Mines when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.26% of users gave DRDGOLD an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave Taseko Mines an outperform vote.
DRDGOLD has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Taseko Mines.
In the previous week, Taseko Mines had 5 more articles in the media than DRDGOLD. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Taseko Mines and 3 mentions for DRDGOLD. Taseko Mines' average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat DRDGOLD's score of 0.47 indicating that DRDGOLD is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
17.9% of Taseko Mines shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.7% of DRDGOLD shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Taseko Mines shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of DRDGOLD shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Taseko Mines has a beta of 1.9, meaning that its stock price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DRDGOLD has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Taseko Mines has a net margin of 15.66% compared to Taseko Mines' net margin of 0.00%. DRDGOLD's return on equity of 11.54% beat Taseko Mines' return on equity.
Summary
Taseko Mines beats DRDGOLD on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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