Anglo American (OTCMKTS:NGLOY) and Blue Gold (NASDAQ:BGL) Financial Contrast

Blue Gold (NASDAQ:BGL) and Anglo American (OTCMKTS:NGLOY) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends and institutional ownership.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings for Blue Gold and Anglo American, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Blue Gold	1	0	0	0	1.00
Anglo American	0	4	1	2	2.71

Anglo American has a consensus target price of $20.00, suggesting a potential upside of 0.60%. Given Anglo American’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Anglo American is more favorable than Blue Gold.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

24.6% of Blue Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.0% of Anglo American shares are held by institutional investors. 19.9% of Blue Gold shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Blue Gold and Anglo American’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Blue Gold	N/A	N/A	N/A
Anglo American	N/A	N/A	N/A

Risk & Volatility

Blue Gold has a beta of 3.84, suggesting that its stock price is 284% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Anglo American has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Blue Gold and Anglo American”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Blue Gold	N/A	N/A	$700,000.00	N/A	N/A
Anglo American	$27.29 billion	1.72	-$3.07 billion	N/A	N/A

Blue Gold has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Anglo American.

Summary

Anglo American beats Blue Gold on 5 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Blue Gold

Blue Gold Limited is a gold mining company developing a portfolio of assets anchored by the historic Bogoso Prestea Mine in the Ashanti region of Ghana. Blue Gold Limited, formerly known as Perception Capital Corp. IV, is based in NEW YORK.

About Anglo American

Anglo American plc operates as a mining company in the United Kingdom and internationally. It explores for rough and polished diamonds, copper, platinum group metals and nickel, steelmaking coal, and iron ore; and nickel, polyhalite, and manganese ores. Anglo American plc was founded in 1917 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.