PVG vs. NGD, ASM, LAAC, DC, WRN, THM, NEXM, AMLI, WWR, and RGLD
Should you be buying Pretium Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pretium Resources include New Gold (NGD), Avino Silver & Gold Mines (ASM), Lithium Americas (Argentina) (LAAC), Dakota Gold (DC), Western Copper & Gold (WRN), International Tower Hill Mines (THM), NexMetals Mining (NEXM), American Lithium (AMLI), Westwater Resources (WWR), and Royal Gold (RGLD). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Pretium Resources vs. Its Competitors
Pretium Resources (NYSE:PVG) and New Gold (NYSE:NGD) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, valuation, earnings, risk and analyst recommendations.
55.1% of Pretium Resources shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.8% of New Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of New Gold shares are held by company 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.
In the previous week, New Gold had 12 more articles in the media than Pretium Resources. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for New Gold and 0 mentions for Pretium Resources. New Gold's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Pretium Resources' score of 0.00 indicating that New Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
New Gold has a consensus target price of $4.38, suggesting a potential downside of 23.23%. Given New Gold's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe New Gold is more favorable than Pretium Resources.
Pretium Resources has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New Gold has a beta of 0.38, indicating that its share price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Pretium Resources has higher earnings, but lower revenue than New Gold. Pretium Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than New Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
New Gold has a net margin of 11.10% compared to Pretium Resources' net margin of -4.70%. Pretium Resources' return on equity of 15.28% beat New Gold's return on equity.
Summary
New Gold beats Pretium Resources on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NYSE:PVG) was last updated on 8/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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