NG vs. CXB, SSRM, FVI, WDO, OSK, KNT, NGD, SEA, OLA, and TXG
Should you be buying NovaGold Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NovaGold Resources include Calibre Mining (CXB), SSR Mining (SSRM), Fortuna Silver Mines (FVI), Wesdome Gold Mines (WDO), Osisko Mining (OSK), K92 Mining (KNT), New Gold (NGD), Seabridge Gold (SEA), Orla Mining (OLA), and Torex Gold Resources (TXG). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Calibre Mining (TSE:CXB) and NovaGold Resources (TSE:NG) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability and media sentiment.
Calibre Mining has a net margin of 15.14% compared to Calibre Mining's net margin of 0.00%. NovaGold Resources' return on equity of 16.87% beat Calibre Mining's return on equity.
19.0% of Calibre Mining shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.4% of NovaGold Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.7% of Calibre Mining shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 26.5% of NovaGold Resources shares are owned 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.
Calibre Mining has higher revenue and earnings than NovaGold Resources. NovaGold Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Calibre Mining, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Calibre Mining has a beta of 2.06, indicating that its stock price is 106% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NovaGold Resources has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Calibre Mining received 20 more outperform votes than NovaGold Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.00% of users gave Calibre Mining an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave NovaGold Resources an outperform vote.
In the previous week, NovaGold Resources had 2 more articles in the media than Calibre Mining. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for NovaGold Resources and 0 mentions for Calibre Mining. NovaGold Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Calibre Mining's score of 0.00 indicating that Calibre Mining is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Calibre Mining beats NovaGold Resources on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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