WRX vs. RTG, AVL, TI, FT, GMX, and OGD
Should you be buying Western Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Western Resources include RTG Mining (RTG), Avalon Advanced Materials (AVL), Titan Mining (TI), Fortune Minerals (FT), Globex Mining Enterprises (GMX), and Orbit Garant Drilling (OGD). These companies are all part of the "other industrial metals & mining" industry.
Western Resources (TSE:WRX) and RTG Mining (TSE:RTG) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, earnings, profitability, valuation and institutional ownership.
Western Resources' return on equity of -0.63% beat RTG Mining's return on equity.
RTG Mining received 20 more outperform votes than Western Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.13% of users gave RTG Mining an outperform vote while only 60.87% of users gave Western Resources an outperform vote.
Western Resources has higher earnings, but lower revenue than RTG Mining. RTG Mining is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Western Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
0.5% of RTG Mining shares are held by institutional investors. 73.5% of Western Resources shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.4% of RTG Mining shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Western Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat RTG Mining's score of 0.00 indicating that Western Resources is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Western Resources has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RTG Mining has a beta of 0.42, suggesting that its share price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Western Resources beats RTG Mining on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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