CGA vs. USAU, HYFM, LODE, GORO, FEAM, WWR, UAMY, FSI, ZKIN, and AUST
Should you be buying China Green Agriculture stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of China Green Agriculture include U.S. Gold (USAU), Hydrofarm Holdings Group (HYFM), Comstock (LODE), Gold Resource (GORO), 5E Advanced Materials (FEAM), Westwater Resources (WWR), United States Antimony (UAMY), Flexible Solutions International (FSI), ZK International Group (ZKIN), and Austin Gold (AUST). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
China Green Agriculture (NYSE:CGA) and U.S. Gold (NASDAQ:USAU) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, dividends and profitability.
U.S. Gold has a net margin of 0.00% compared to China Green Agriculture's net margin of -14.54%. China Green Agriculture's return on equity of -12.68% beat U.S. Gold's return on equity.
U.S. Gold received 6 more outperform votes than China Green Agriculture when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.82% of users gave U.S. Gold an outperform vote while only 55.94% of users gave China Green Agriculture an outperform vote.
U.S. Gold has a consensus price target of $14.50, suggesting a potential upside of 256.27%. Given U.S. Gold's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe U.S. Gold is more favorable than China Green Agriculture.
0.1% of China Green Agriculture shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.6% of U.S. Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 34.3% of China Green Agriculture shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 9.8% of U.S. Gold shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
China Green Agriculture has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, U.S. Gold has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
U.S. Gold has lower revenue, but higher earnings than China Green Agriculture. U.S. Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than China Green Agriculture, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, U.S. Gold had 4 more articles in the media than China Green Agriculture. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for U.S. Gold and 2 mentions for China Green Agriculture. U.S. Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat China Green Agriculture's score of 0.22 indicating that U.S. Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
U.S. Gold beats China Green Agriculture on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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