FVL vs. NG, PPTA, EQX, SVM, NDM, NSR, ODV, GOLD, TMQ, and AU
Should you be buying Freegold Ventures stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Freegold Ventures include NovaGold Resources (NG), Perpetua Resources (PPTA), Equinox Gold (EQX), Silvercorp Metals (SVM), Northern Dynasty Minerals (NDM), Nomad Royalty (NSR), Osisko Development (ODV), GoldMining (GOLD), Trilogy Metals (TMQ), and Aurion Resources (AU). These companies are all part of the "precious metals" industry.
Freegold Ventures vs.
NovaGold Resources (TSE:NG) and Freegold Ventures (TSE:FVL) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and valuation.
NovaGold Resources presently has a consensus price target of C$7.00, suggesting a potential upside of 21.11%. Given NovaGold Resources' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe NovaGold Resources is more favorable than Freegold Ventures.
NovaGold Resources' return on equity of 141.66% beat Freegold Ventures' return on equity.
NovaGold Resources has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Freegold Ventures has a beta of 2.52, suggesting that its stock price is 152% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, NovaGold Resources had 13 more articles in the media than Freegold Ventures. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for NovaGold Resources and 2 mentions for Freegold Ventures. NovaGold Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Freegold Ventures' score of 0.34 indicating that NovaGold Resources is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Freegold Ventures received 72 more outperform votes than NovaGold Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.87% of users gave Freegold Ventures an outperform vote while only 20.00% of users gave NovaGold Resources an outperform vote.
58.4% of NovaGold Resources shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.3% of Freegold Ventures shares are held by institutional investors. 26.5% of NovaGold Resources shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 29.8% of Freegold Ventures shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Freegold Ventures is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NovaGold Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
NovaGold Resources beats Freegold Ventures on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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