GORO vs. VGZ, AUST, HYMC, USGO, VOXR, TRX, PLG, ODV, USAU, and HYFM
Should you be buying Gold Resource stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gold Resource include Vista Gold (VGZ), Austin Gold (AUST), Hycroft Mining (HYMC), U.S. GoldMining (USGO), Vox Royalty (VOXR), TRX Gold (TRX), Platinum Group Metals (PLG), Osisko Development (ODV), U.S. Gold (USAU), and Hydrofarm Holdings Group (HYFM). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Vista Gold (NYSE:VGZ) and Gold Resource (NYSE:GORO) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk and valuation.
Vista Gold and Gold Resource both received 1 outperform votes by MarketBeat users. However, 16.67% of users gave Gold Resource an outperform vote while only 2.33% of users gave Vista Gold an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Gold Resource had 5 more articles in the media than Vista Gold. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Gold Resource and 7 mentions for Vista Gold. Gold Resource's average media sentiment score of 0.31 beat Vista Gold's score of 0.08 indicating that Vista Gold is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Vista Gold presently has a consensus price target of $2.50, suggesting a potential upside of 419.21%. Gold Resource has a consensus price target of $1.50, suggesting a potential upside of 247.22%. Given Gold Resource's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Vista Gold is more favorable than Gold Resource.
Vista Gold has a beta of 1.71, indicating that its share price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gold Resource has a beta of 1.58, indicating that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Vista Gold has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Gold Resource. Vista Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gold Resource, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
27.3% of Vista Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.4% of Gold Resource shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.2% of Vista Gold shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Gold Resource shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Vista Gold has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Vista Gold's net margin of -22.30%. Vista Gold's return on equity of -18.82% beat Gold Resource's return on equity.
Summary
Vista Gold beats Gold Resource on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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