VGZ vs. G, STGO, LN, XTG, ME, LGD, and FF
Should you be buying Vista Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vista Gold include Augusta Gold (G), Steppe Gold (STGO), Loncor Gold (LN), Xtra-Gold Resources (XTG), Moneta Gold (ME), Liberty Gold (LGD), and First Mining Gold (FF). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Augusta Gold (TSE:G) and Vista Gold (TSE:VGZ) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment and dividends.
Augusta Gold received 308 more outperform votes than Vista Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.32% of users gave Augusta Gold an outperform vote while only 66.27% of users gave Vista Gold an outperform vote.
Augusta Gold has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vista Gold has a beta of 1.7, suggesting that its share price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Augusta Gold presently has a consensus price target of C$2.25, suggesting a potential upside of 125.00%. Given Vista Gold's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Augusta Gold is more favorable than Vista Gold.
3.9% of Augusta Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.4% of Vista Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 47.4% of Augusta Gold shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Vista Gold shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Augusta Gold had 7 more articles in the media than Vista Gold. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Augusta Gold and 1 mentions for Vista Gold. Augusta Gold's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Vista Gold's score of -0.02 indicating that Vista Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Augusta Gold has higher revenue and earnings than Vista Gold. Vista Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Augusta Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Vista Gold's return on equity of 28.33% beat Augusta Gold's return on equity.
Summary
Augusta Gold beats Vista Gold on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of TSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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