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Vista Gold (VGZ) Competitors

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VGZ vs. GROY, ODV, NFGC, IAUX, VOXR, USGO, PLG, TRX, HYMC, and GORO

Should you be buying Vista Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vista Gold include Gold Royalty (GROY), Osisko Development (ODV), New Found Gold (NFGC), i-80 Gold (IAUX), Vox Royalty (VOXR), U.S. GoldMining (USGO), Platinum Group Metals (PLG), TRX Gold (TRX), Hycroft Mining (HYMC), and Gold Resource (GORO). These companies are all part of the "precious metals" industry.

Vista Gold vs.

Vista Gold (NYSE:VGZ) and Gold Royalty (NYSE:GROY) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, risk, valuation, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings and institutional ownership.

Vista Gold presently has a consensus price target of $2.75, suggesting a potential upside of 125.41%. Gold Royalty has a consensus price target of $3.31, suggesting a potential upside of 85.06%. Given Vista Gold's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Vista Gold is more favorable than Gold Royalty.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Vista Gold
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Gold Royalty
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

27.3% of Vista Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.8% of Gold Royalty shares are held by institutional investors. 4.2% of Vista Gold shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Vista Gold has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Gold Royalty's net margin of -252.16%. Vista Gold's return on equity of 93.43% beat Gold Royalty's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Vista GoldN/A 93.43% 68.97%
Gold Royalty -252.16%0.46%0.35%

Vista Gold and Gold Royalty both received 6 outperform votes by MarketBeat users. However, 85.71% of users gave Gold Royalty an outperform vote while only 10.53% of users gave Vista Gold an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Vista GoldOutperform Votes
6
10.53%
Underperform Votes
51
89.47%
Gold RoyaltyOutperform Votes
6
85.71%
Underperform Votes
1
14.29%

Vista Gold has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gold Royalty has a beta of 0.78, meaning that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Vista Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Gold Royalty'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Vista Gold Neutral
Gold Royalty Neutral

Vista Gold has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Gold Royalty. Gold Royalty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vista Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Vista GoldN/AN/A-$6.59M$0.0717.43
Gold Royalty$10.35M29.49-$26.76M-$0.02-89.50

Summary

Vista Gold beats Gold Royalty on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

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VGZ vs. The Competition

MetricVista GoldGold & silver ores IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$152.29M$4.42B$3.08B$19.30B
Dividend YieldN/A2.07%5.21%3.84%
P/E Ratio13.5626.7167.8834.53
Price / SalesN/A10.6725,591,212,775,269,400.0034.83
Price / CashN/A21.4524.3417.51
Price / Book30.503.305.214.69
Net Income-$6.59M$8.61M$156.48M$1.02B
7 Day Performance27.08%5.22%2.45%-1.74%
1 Month Performance28.53%1.23%5.51%7.50%
1 Year Performance127.10%29.77%16.98%4.15%

Vista Gold Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
VGZ
Vista Gold
1.6278 of 5 stars
$1.22
-2.4%
$2.75
+125.4%
+126.1%$152.29MN/A13.5610Positive News
Gap Down
GROY
Gold Royalty
1.4781 of 5 stars
$1.53
-5.6%
$3.31
+116.5%
N/A$260.82M$10.10M-11.774
ODV
Osisko Development
N/A$1.85
-6.8%
N/A-15.0%$252.13M$4.56M-1.02310High Trading Volume
NFGC
New Found Gold
0.841 of 5 stars
$1.21
-6.2%
$5.00
+313.2%
-68.3%$242.86MN/A-5.5098News Coverage
Gap Up
IAUX
i-80 Gold
1.8189 of 5 stars
$0.50
-6.9%
$3.50
+595.7%
N/A$223.05M$55.97M-1.4080High Trading Volume
VOXR
Vox Royalty
0.9546 of 5 stars
$3.00
-5.7%
N/A+46.5%$152.26M$11.05M-100.003News Coverage
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Revision
USGO
U.S. GoldMining
2.2122 of 5 stars
$10.50
+5.2%
$26.50
+152.4%
+68.2%$130.99MN/A0.006News Coverage
Analyst Downgrade
High Trading Volume
PLG
Platinum Group Metals
N/A$1.21
-4.0%
N/A-21.4%$127.31MN/A-20.1710News Coverage
Positive News
TRX
TRX Gold
2.1791 of 5 stars
$0.31
-3.6%
$1.50
+386.9%
-34.7%$86.98M$45.41M-30.81120News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
HYMC
Hycroft Mining
0.1832 of 5 stars
$3.36
-3.4%
N/A-18.6%$83.94M$33.23M-1.26100
GORO
Gold Resource
1.3347 of 5 stars
$0.51
-8.2%
$1.25
+144.2%
+15.3%$62.25M$65.73M-1.0410News Coverage

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This page (NYSE:VGZ) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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