VGZ vs. LGD, STGO, G, ME, FF, LN, and XTG
Should you be buying Vista Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vista Gold include Liberty Gold (LGD), Steppe Gold (STGO), Augusta Gold (G), Moneta Gold (ME), First Mining Gold (FF), Loncor Gold (LN), and Xtra-Gold Resources (XTG). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Liberty Gold (TSE:LGD) and Vista Gold (TSE:VGZ) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership and earnings.
27.6% of Liberty Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.4% of Vista Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.3% of Liberty Gold shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of Vista Gold shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Liberty Gold had 1 more articles in the media than Vista Gold. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Liberty Gold and 0 mentions for Vista Gold. Vista Gold's average media sentiment score of 1.56 beat Liberty Gold's score of 1.00 indicating that Liberty Gold is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Vista Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Liberty Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Liberty Gold presently has a consensus price target of C$1.23, indicating a potential upside of 282.81%. Given Vista Gold's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Liberty Gold is more favorable than Vista Gold.
Liberty Gold has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vista Gold has a beta of 1.59, indicating that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Vista Gold's return on equity of -53.91% beat Liberty Gold's return on equity.
Liberty Gold received 45 more outperform votes than Vista Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.61% of users gave Liberty Gold an outperform vote while only 66.27% of users gave Vista Gold an outperform vote.
Summary
Liberty Gold beats Vista Gold on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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