PLG vs. TRX, VOXR, USGO, VGZ, ODV, HYMC, GORO, PPTA, AREC, and NTIC
Should you be buying Platinum Group Metals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Platinum Group Metals include TRX Gold (TRX), Vox Royalty (VOXR), U.S. GoldMining (USGO), Vista Gold (VGZ), Osisko Development (ODV), Hycroft Mining (HYMC), Gold Resource (GORO), Perpetua Resources (PPTA), American Resources (AREC), and Northern Technologies International (NTIC). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Platinum Group Metals (NYSE:PLG) and TRX Gold (NYSE:TRX) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
Platinum Group Metals has a net margin of 0.00% compared to TRX Gold's net margin of -5.86%. TRX Gold's return on equity of -3.73% beat Platinum Group Metals' return on equity.
TRX Gold has higher revenue and earnings than Platinum Group Metals. Platinum Group Metals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TRX Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
16.3% of Platinum Group Metals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.1% of TRX Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Platinum Group Metals shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of TRX Gold shares are held 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.
Platinum Group Metals has a beta of 1.58, indicating that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TRX Gold has a beta of 0.64, indicating that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, TRX Gold had 3 more articles in the media than Platinum Group Metals. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for TRX Gold and 0 mentions for Platinum Group Metals. TRX Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Platinum Group Metals' score of 0.00 indicating that TRX Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
TRX Gold has a consensus price target of $1.30, suggesting a potential upside of 234.45%. Given TRX Gold's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe TRX Gold is more favorable than Platinum Group Metals.
Platinum Group Metals and TRX Gold both received 0 outperform votes by MarketBeat users.
Summary
TRX Gold beats Platinum Group Metals on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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