NDM vs. FVL, FSY, SMT, AII, FAR, LGO, ERD, ETG, S, and WM
Should you be buying Northern Dynasty Minerals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Northern Dynasty Minerals include Freegold Ventures (FVL), Forsys Metals (FSY), Sierra Metals (SMT), Almonty Industries (AII), Foraco International (FAR), Largo (LGO), Erdene Resource Development (ERD), Entrée Resources (ETG), Sherritt International (S), and Wallbridge Mining (WM). These companies are all part of the "other industrial metals & mining" industry.
Freegold Ventures (TSE:FVL) and Northern Dynasty Minerals (TSE:NDM) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings and risk.
Northern Dynasty Minerals received 272 more outperform votes than Freegold Ventures when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.87% of users gave Freegold Ventures an outperform vote while only 65.09% of users gave Northern Dynasty Minerals an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Freegold Ventures and Freegold Ventures both had 1 articles in the media. Freegold Ventures' average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Northern Dynasty Minerals' score of 0.00 indicating that Northern Dynasty Minerals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Freegold Ventures is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Northern Dynasty Minerals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
5.1% of Freegold Ventures shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.5% of Northern Dynasty Minerals shares are held by institutional investors. 29.2% of Freegold Ventures shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Northern Dynasty Minerals shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Northern Dynasty Minerals' return on equity of -3.75% beat Freegold Ventures' return on equity.
Freegold Ventures has a beta of 2.35, suggesting that its share price is 135% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Northern Dynasty Minerals has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Freegold Ventures beats Northern Dynasty Minerals on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
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