Analyzing Critical Metals (NASDAQ:CRML) and New Gold (NYSE:NGD)

Critical Metals (NASDAQ:CRML) and New Gold (NYSE:NGD) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Critical Metals and New Gold, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Critical Metals	0	0	0	0	N/A
New Gold	0	2	3	2	3.00

New Gold has a consensus price target of $3.08, suggesting a potential upside of 12.61%. Given New Gold’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe New Gold is more favorable than Critical Metals.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

86.4% of Critical Metals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.8% of New Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 65.7% of Critical Metals shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of New Gold shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility and Risk

Critical Metals has a beta of 0.08, meaning that its stock price is 92% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New Gold has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Critical Metals and New Gold’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Critical Metals	N/A	N/A	N/A
New Gold	-2.53%	5.22%	2.03%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Critical Metals and New Gold”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Critical Metals	N/A	N/A	-$100,000.00	N/A	N/A
New Gold	$861.50 million	2.51	-$64.50 million	$0.02	136.75

Critical Metals has higher earnings, but lower revenue than New Gold.

Summary

New Gold beats Critical Metals on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Critical Metals

Sizzle Acquisition Corp. is a blank check company. It intends to effect a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or related business combination with one or more businesses. Sizzle Acquisition Corp. is based in Washington, the District of Columbia.

About New Gold

New Gold Inc., an intermediate gold mining company, develops and operates of mineral properties in Canada. It primarily explores for gold, silver, and copper deposits. The company’s principal operating properties include 100% interest in the Rainy River mine located in Northwestern Ontario, Canada; and New Afton project situated in South-Central British Columbia. New Gold Inc. is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.