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

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for Blue Gold and Anglo American, as reported by MarketBeat.

	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, indicating a potential upside of 5.43%. Given Anglo American’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Anglo American is more favorable than Blue Gold.

Volatility and Risk

Blue Gold has a beta of 3.84, indicating that its stock price is 284% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Anglo American has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Blue Gold and Anglo American”s top-line revenue, earnings per share 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	1.64	-$3.07 billion	N/A	N/A

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

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

Insider & Institutional 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 hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

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.