FT vs. RTG, and OGD
Should you be buying Fortune Minerals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fortune Minerals include RTG Mining (RTG), and Orbit Garant Drilling (OGD). These companies are all part of the "other industrial metals & mining" industry.
Fortune Minerals (TSE:FT) and RTG Mining (TSE:RTG) 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 profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
In the previous week, RTG Mining had 1 more articles in the media than Fortune Minerals. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for RTG Mining and 0 mentions for Fortune Minerals. Fortune Minerals' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled RTG Mining'saverage media sentiment score.
0.5% of RTG Mining shares are held by institutional investors. 4.4% of Fortune Minerals shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.4% of RTG Mining shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Fortune Minerals received 102 more outperform votes than RTG Mining when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.20% of users gave Fortune Minerals an outperform vote while only 68.13% of users gave RTG Mining an outperform vote.
Fortune Minerals' return on equity of -65.96% beat RTG Mining's return on equity.
Fortune Minerals has higher earnings, but lower revenue than RTG Mining. Fortune Minerals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RTG Mining, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Fortune Minerals has a beta of 0.05, indicating that its stock price is 95% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RTG Mining has a beta of 0.42, indicating that its stock price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
RTG Mining beats Fortune Minerals on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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