WRX vs. GMX, GENM, TI, AVL, RTG, TMQ, and SLR
Should you be buying Western Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Western Resources include Globex Mining Enterprises (GMX), Generation Mining (GENM), Titan Mining (TI), Avalon Advanced Materials (AVL), RTG Mining (RTG), Trilogy Metals (TMQ), and Solitario Resources (SLR). These companies are all part of the "other industrial metals & mining" industry.
Globex Mining Enterprises (TSE:GMX) and Western Resources (TSE:WRX) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, profitability, risk, media sentiment, dividends and community ranking.
Globex Mining Enterprises has a beta of 1.34, suggesting that its stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Western Resources has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Globex Mining Enterprises received 46 more outperform votes than Western Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.95% of users gave Globex Mining Enterprises an outperform vote while only 60.87% of users gave Western Resources an outperform vote.
Western Resources has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Globex Mining Enterprises. Globex Mining Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Western Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Globex Mining Enterprises has a net margin of 33.26% compared to Globex Mining Enterprises' net margin of 0.00%. Western Resources' return on equity of 4.34% beat Globex Mining Enterprises' return on equity.
In the previous week, Globex Mining Enterprises had 4 more articles in the media than Western Resources. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Globex Mining Enterprises and 0 mentions for Western Resources. Western Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat Globex Mining Enterprises' score of 0.00 indicating that Globex Mining Enterprises is being referred to more favorably in the media.
3.1% of Globex Mining Enterprises shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.5% of Globex Mining Enterprises shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 73.5% of Western 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.
Summary
Globex Mining Enterprises beats Western Resources on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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