Perpetua Resources (PPTA) Competitors

Perpetua Resources (NASDAQ:PPTA) and Sibanye Stillwater (NYSE:SBSW) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.

Is PPTA or SBSW more profitable?

Sibanye Stillwater's return on equity of 0.00% beat Perpetua Resources' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Perpetua Resources	N/A	-19.48%	-17.08%
Sibanye Stillwater	N/A	N/A	N/A

Which has more risk & volatility, PPTA or SBSW?

Perpetua Resources has a beta of 0.06, indicating that its share price is 94% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sibanye Stillwater has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do analysts recommend PPTA or SBSW?

Perpetua Resources presently has a consensus price target of $23.25, suggesting a potential upside of 70.20%. Sibanye Stillwater has a consensus price target of $5.05, suggesting a potential downside of 11.94%. Given Perpetua Resources' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Perpetua Resources is more favorable than Sibanye Stillwater.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Perpetua Resources	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.25
Sibanye Stillwater	0 Sell rating(s)	5 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.17

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer PPTA or SBSW?

Sibanye Stillwater received 7 more outperform votes than Perpetua Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave Perpetua Resources an outperform vote while only 47.22% of users gave Sibanye Stillwater an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Perpetua Resources	Outperform Votes 27 75.00%	Underperform Votes 9 25.00%
Sibanye Stillwater	Outperform Votes 34 47.22%	Underperform Votes 38 52.78%

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in PPTA or SBSW?

70.1% of Perpetua Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.9% of Sibanye Stillwater shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Perpetua Resources shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Sibanye Stillwater shares are owned by 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.

Which has better valuation and earnings, PPTA or SBSW?

Perpetua Resources has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Sibanye Stillwater. Perpetua Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sibanye Stillwater, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Perpetua Resources	N/A	N/A	-$18.77M	-$0.29	-47.10
Sibanye Stillwater	$112.13B	0.04	-$2.05B	$0.52	11.03

Does the media favor PPTA or SBSW?

In the previous week, Perpetua Resources had 31 more articles in the media than Sibanye Stillwater. MarketBeat recorded 36 mentions for Perpetua Resources and 5 mentions for Sibanye Stillwater. Sibanye Stillwater's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Perpetua Resources' score of -0.01 indicating that Sibanye Stillwater is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Perpetua Resources	3 Very Positive mention(s)	5 Positive mention(s)	18 Neutral mention(s)	4 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Sibanye Stillwater	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Perpetua Resources beats Sibanye Stillwater on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.