Financial Review: U.S. GoldMining (USGO) vs. Its Rivals

U.S. GoldMining (NASDAQ:USGO) is one of 114 publicly-traded companies in the “Gold & silver ores” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare U.S. GoldMining to similar businesses based on the strength of its valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, risk and dividends.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for U.S. GoldMining and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
U.S. GoldMining	0	0	1	0	3.00
U.S. GoldMining Competitors	1169	3445	4315	159	2.38

U.S. GoldMining currently has a consensus price target of $26.50, suggesting a potential upside of 168.49%. As a group, “Gold & silver ores” companies have a potential upside of 7.18%. Given U.S. GoldMining’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe U.S. GoldMining is more favorable than its peers.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares U.S. GoldMining and its peers revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
U.S. GoldMining	N/A	-$9.36 million	-13.90
U.S. GoldMining Competitors	$4.93 billion	-$62.19 million	-18.07

U.S. GoldMining’s peers have higher revenue, but lower earnings than U.S. GoldMining. U.S. GoldMining is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Profitability

This table compares U.S. GoldMining and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
U.S. GoldMining	N/A	-71.04%	-65.02%
U.S. GoldMining Competitors	-58.41%	4.27%	3.38%

Volatility & Risk

U.S. GoldMining has a beta of 2.15, indicating that its stock price is 115% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, U.S. GoldMining’s peers have a beta of 0.79, indicating that their average stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

0.5% of U.S. GoldMining shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.9% of shares of all “Gold & silver ores” companies are held by institutional investors. 2.5% of U.S. GoldMining shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.0% of shares of all “Gold & silver ores” companies are held 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.

Summary

U.S. GoldMining beats its peers on 7 of the 13 factors compared.

About U.S. GoldMining

U.S. GoldMining Inc., an exploration stage company, engages in the exploration and development of mineral properties in the United States. The company's primary asset is the 100%-owned Whistler exploration property, a gold-copper exploration project comprising mining claims totaling 53,700 acres located in Yentna Mining District, Alaska. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Vancouver, Canada. U.S. GoldMining Inc. operates as a subsidiary of GoldMining Inc.