PLG vs. DRD, NFGC, ARMN, MUX, VZLA, PPTA, SKE, ODV, TRX, and VOXR
Should you be buying Platinum Group Metals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Platinum Group Metals include DRDGOLD (DRD), New Found Gold (NFGC), Aris Mining (ARMN), McEwen Mining (MUX), Vizsla Silver (VZLA), Perpetua Resources (PPTA), Skeena Resources (SKE), Osisko Development (ODV), TRX Gold (TRX), and Vox Royalty (VOXR). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
Platinum Group Metals (NYSE:PLG) and DRDGOLD (NYSE:DRD) 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 profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk and analyst recommendations.
Platinum Group Metals has a beta of 1.6, indicating that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DRDGOLD has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
DRDGOLD has a consensus price target of $15.50, suggesting a potential upside of 83.00%. Given DRDGOLD's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe DRDGOLD is more favorable than Platinum Group Metals.
16.3% of Platinum Group Metals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.7% of DRDGOLD shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Platinum Group Metals shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of DRDGOLD shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Platinum Group Metals had 1 more articles in the media than DRDGOLD. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Platinum Group Metals and 0 mentions for DRDGOLD. DRDGOLD's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Platinum Group Metals' score of 0.34 indicating that DRDGOLD is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
DRDGOLD's return on equity of 0.00% beat Platinum Group Metals' return on equity.
DRDGOLD received 183 more outperform votes than Platinum Group Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.20% of users gave DRDGOLD an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Platinum Group Metals an outperform vote.
DRDGOLD has higher revenue and earnings than Platinum Group Metals.
Summary
DRDGOLD beats Platinum Group Metals on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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