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Vista Gold (VGZ) Competitors

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$2.17 -0.03 (-1.36%)
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VGZ vs. NAK, ODV, IAUX, GROY, NFGC, PLG, HYMC, VOXR, TRX, and NAMM

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

Vista Gold vs. Its Competitors

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

Vista Gold presently has a consensus target price of $3.00, suggesting a potential upside of 38.25%. Northern Dynasty Minerals has a consensus target price of $2.50, suggesting a potential downside of 9.42%. Given Vista Gold's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Vista Gold is more favorable than Northern Dynasty Minerals.

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
Northern Dynasty Minerals
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

27.3% of Vista Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.6% of Northern Dynasty Minerals shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.2% of Vista Gold shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Northern Dynasty Minerals shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Vista Gold's return on equity of 93.43% beat Northern Dynasty Minerals' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Vista GoldN/A 93.43% 68.97%
Northern Dynasty Minerals N/A N/A N/A

Vista Gold has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Northern Dynasty Minerals has a beta of -0.6, indicating that its stock price is 160% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Vista Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Northern Dynasty Minerals, 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-$0.07-31.00
Northern Dynasty MineralsN/AN/AN/A-$0.11-25.09

In the previous week, Northern Dynasty Minerals had 1 more articles in the media than Vista Gold. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Northern Dynasty Minerals and 0 mentions for Vista Gold. Vista Gold's average media sentiment score of 1.88 beat Northern Dynasty Minerals' score of 0.20 indicating that Vista Gold is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Vista Gold Very Positive
Northern Dynasty Minerals Neutral

Summary

Vista Gold beats Northern Dynasty Minerals on 9 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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VGZ vs. The Competition

MetricVista GoldGold & silver ores IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$271.64M$1.09B$3.79B$21.76B
Dividend YieldN/A1.37%5.06%3.64%
P/E Ratio24.113.01159.0829.93
Price / SalesN/A22.8427,453.9666.72
Price / CashN/A39.3827.0523.91
Price / Book54.256.647.454.68
Net Income-$6.59M-$813.46K$148.99M$1.01B
7 Day Performance-6.87%9.91%3.34%-0.71%
1 Month PerformanceN/A36.38%16.82%1.18%
1 Year Performance201.39%110.54%73.31%14.46%

Vista Gold Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
VGZ
Vista Gold
3.4019 of 5 stars
$2.17
-1.4%
$3.00
+38.2%
+197.3%$271.64MN/A24.1110Positive News
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
NAK
Northern Dynasty Minerals
0.3532 of 5 stars
$1.51
+14.4%
N/AN/A$833.14MN/A-13.73N/AGap Up
High Trading Volume
ODV
Osisko Development
0.3538 of 5 stars
$3.64
+7.4%
N/A+73.7%$808.81M$3.33M-4.44310Gap Up
High Trading Volume
IAUX
i-80 Gold
2.6068 of 5 stars
$0.99
+4.0%
$1.50
+51.8%
N/A$780.65M$76.62M-2.7580News Coverage
GROY
Gold Royalty
2.7714 of 5 stars
$3.80
-0.8%
$4.64
+22.0%
+160.9%$647.79M$12.38M-29.234Analyst Revision
NFGC
New Found Gold
1.3069 of 5 stars
$2.41
+4.8%
$5.00
+107.5%
+4.7%$585.70MN/A-10.9598Positive News
PLG
Platinum Group Metals
0.2979 of 5 stars
$2.83
+1.4%
N/A+84.0%$318.58MN/A-47.1710Gap Down
High Trading Volume
HYMC
Hycroft Mining
1.1775 of 5 stars
$6.41
+2.7%
N/A+228.8%$244.38M$33.23M-3.22100
VOXR
Vox Royalty
1.2173 of 5 stars
$4.23
+1.7%
N/A+47.7%$211.71M$11.05M-105.753
TRX
TRX Gold
2.5018 of 5 stars
$0.63
+0.3%
$1.10
+73.6%
+111.2%$180.52M$47.73M-34.20120Gap Up
NAMM
Namib Minerals
1.0642 of 5 stars
$3.26
+1.6%
N/AN/A$172.30M$80.35M-2.57N/ANews Coverage
Gap Down

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This page (NYSE:VGZ) was last updated on 10/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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