TRX vs. PLG, VOXR, USGO, HYMC, ODV, VGZ, GORO, VZLA, PPTA, and AMLI
Should you be buying TRX Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TRX Gold include Platinum Group Metals (PLG), Vox Royalty (VOXR), U.S. GoldMining (USGO), Hycroft Mining (HYMC), Osisko Development (ODV), Vista Gold (VGZ), Gold Resource (GORO), Vizsla Silver (VZLA), Perpetua Resources (PPTA), and American Lithium (AMLI). 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 stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, risk, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and valuation.
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.
Platinum Group Metals has a beta of 1.59, indicating that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TRX Gold has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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 hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, TRX Gold had 8 more articles in the media than Platinum Group Metals. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for TRX Gold and 2 mentions for Platinum Group Metals. Platinum Group Metals' average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat TRX Gold's score of 0.50 indicating that TRX Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
TRX Gold has a consensus price target of $1.58, indicating a potential upside of 248.07%. Given Platinum Group Metals' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe TRX Gold is more favorable than Platinum Group Metals.
TRX Gold has a net margin of 0.70% compared to TRX Gold's net margin of 0.00%. Platinum Group Metals' return on equity of -1.66% beat TRX Gold's return on equity.
TRX Gold received 2 more outperform votes than Platinum Group Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 4.44% of users gave TRX Gold an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Platinum Group Metals an outperform vote.
Summary
TRX Gold beats Platinum Group Metals on 14 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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