Verdict: Side-by-side breakdown using the Bull Rankings model. UEC scored 12.3, UROY scored 23.0 — UROY leads.
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UEC
Uranium Energy Corp.
Uranium · Quality-Growth
12.3
$9.19 · $4.6B
fundamentals as of
Score gap
10.7
UROY leads
UROY
Uranium Royalty Corp.
Uranium · Quality-Growth
23
$4.18 · $1.6B
fundamentals as of
At a glance · who leads each dimension, on the model's own rules
Strongest balance sheetUEC0.00
Highest qualityUROY51 / 100
Largest discount to fair valueUROY-8%
Side by side · every name on one set of axes
The model, pillar by pillar (0–100 each)
UEC
stronger →← stronger
UROY
24
Qualityreturns · margins · balance sheet
51
10
Growthrevenue & earnings expansion
10
8
Valuevaluation vs sector peers
25
UROY is stronger on 2 of 3 pillars.
Fundamentals, head-to-head
UEC
UROY
-$107mF
FCF
$208mC
0.00A
D/E
0.56B
1.37B
PEG
—
—
P/E
11.0xB+
Winner per row is the stronger grade; where grades tie, the better figure breaks it. A true tie or a missing value shows no highlight.
Valuation · DCF cross-check
UEC
UROY
—
Price vs fair valuelower is cheaper
8% below
—
Growth the price impliesyr-1 FCF growth, fading to 4% · lower = less priced in
~-4%/yr
—
1-yr DCF upside
+22%
—
5-yr DCF upside
+9%
—
10-yr DCF upside
-5%
The DCF is a cross-check on intrinsic value, separate from the quality-growth score above.
Model signals
UEC
Why this score
Diluting shareholders
UROY
Why this score
Diluting shareholders
Short track record
The companies
UECUranium Energy Corp.
Uranium · $9.19 · beta 1.39
Why now
Uranium · market cap $4.6b. Down 55% from 52-week high of $20.34 — deep drawdown territory. 11 sell-side analysts rate this a Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $16.12 (implying +75% upside).
Moat
Higher-variance name — the moat signals on the quantitative card are modest, so the durability case rests on execution (turning current growth into durable earnings power) or an un-monetized asset (IP / network effects / first-mover position) rather than an entrenched competitive position.
Risk
Free cash flow is negative (-$107m) — capital raises or debt issuance likely required; dilution / leverage risk. Down 55% from the 52-week high — the market is pricing in something the screen can't see; verify the bear case before sizing up. ROE -10% is below the long-run sustainable threshold of ~10% — capital efficiency would need to improve for the equity base to compound at the market rate.
UROYUranium Royalty Corp.
Uranium · $4.18 · beta 1.58
Why now
Uranium · market cap $1.6b. Down 24% from 52-week high of $5.52 — deep drawdown territory. 3 sell-side analysts rate this a Strong Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $4.19 (implying +0% upside).
Moat
Net margin 26% sits well above the S&P median (~11%) — suggests structural pricing advantage or cost discipline competitors can't quickly close. Free cash flow runs well ahead of reported net income, mostly because of cash released from working capital ($167m, chiefly inventory sold down) — a release that doesn't repeat every year the way earnings can.
Risk
Beta 1.58 implies above-market volatility — position-size to the drawdowns this name will produce in a market correction, not to its bull-case return.
Verdict — model-derived comparison
Generating verdict… typically 5–10 seconds
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Where UEC and UROY diverge
On the headline score the gap is 10.7 points in favor of UROY. The widest single difference is Quality, where UROY leads by 26.7 points.
QualityUEC 23.9 · UROY 50.6UROY +26.7
ValueUEC 7.8 · UROY 25.4UROY +17.6
GrowthUEC 10.0 · UROY 9.5level
Pillars run 0–100. Value is judged against each company's own sector, so a Value score is a statement about a company relative to its own industry rather than to the other name here. A wide Value gap usually means the market already prices the difference in quality or growth — which is the trade-off this comparison comes down to.
Common questions
Is UROY or UEC the better stock?
UROY scores higher: UROY 23.0, UEC 12.3 out of 100 on the Bull Rankings quality-growth score, which blends business quality, growth and valuation into one number. A higher score means a stronger business at a more reasonable price — it is not a price target or a recommendation.
Where do UROY and UEC differ most?
The widest gap is quality, where UROY leads by 27 points on the 0–100 pillar scale. UROY also leads value, while growth is effectively level between them.
How are UROY and UEC scored?
Each carries the same 0–100 quality-growth score used everywhere on the site, built from three pillars — quality (profitability and returns on capital), growth (revenue and earnings), and value (what you pay for them) — combined as a geometric mean, so a weak pillar cannot be papered over by a strong one.
How current is this comparison?
The whole universe is re-scored every trading day after the US market close, so the scores and fundamentals here reflect the latest published edition.