G vs. STGO, VGZ, LGD, ME, LN, XTG, and FF
Should you be buying Augusta Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Augusta Gold include Steppe Gold (STGO), Vista Gold (VGZ), Liberty Gold (LGD), Moneta Gold (ME), Loncor Gold (LN), Xtra-Gold Resources (XTG), and First Mining Gold (FF). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Steppe Gold (TSE:STGO) and Augusta Gold (TSE:G) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and institutional ownership.
6.6% of Steppe Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.1% of Augusta Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 29.8% of Steppe Gold shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 47.4% of Augusta Gold shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Augusta Gold had 14 more articles in the media than Steppe Gold. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Augusta Gold and 0 mentions for Steppe Gold. Steppe Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat Augusta Gold's score of 0.00 indicating that Augusta Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Augusta Gold received 402 more outperform votes than Steppe Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 88.89% of users gave Steppe Gold an outperform vote while only 72.32% of users gave Augusta Gold an outperform vote.
Steppe Gold presently has a consensus target price of C$2.69, suggesting a potential upside of 262.84%. Augusta Gold has a consensus target price of C$2.25, suggesting a potential upside of 108.33%. Given Augusta Gold's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Steppe Gold is more favorable than Augusta Gold.
Steppe Gold has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Augusta Gold has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Steppe Gold has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Augusta Gold. Augusta Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Steppe Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Steppe Gold has a net margin of 24.94% compared to Steppe Gold's net margin of 0.00%. Augusta Gold's return on equity of 48.35% beat Steppe Gold's return on equity.
Summary
Steppe Gold beats Augusta Gold on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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