AUST vs. GORO, CHNR, AUMN, NEM, AEM, GOLD, WPM, FNV, GFI, and AU
Should you be buying Austin Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Austin Gold include Gold Resource (GORO), China Natural Resources (CHNR), Golden Minerals (AUMN), Newmont (NEM), Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM), Barrick Gold (GOLD), Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), Franco-Nevada (FNV), Gold Fields (GFI), and AngloGold Ashanti (AU). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
Gold Resource (NYSE:GORO) and Austin Gold (NYSE:AUST) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, dividends and community ranking.
Gold Resource has a beta of 1.53, suggesting that its share price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Austin Gold has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Austin Gold has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Austin Gold's net margin of -22.30%. Austin Gold's return on equity of -19.21% beat Gold Resource's return on equity.
Austin Gold has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Gold Resource. Austin Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gold Resource, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Austin Gold received 1 more outperform votes than Gold Resource when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 100.00% of users gave Austin Gold an outperform vote while only 10.00% of users gave Gold Resource an outperform vote.
Gold Resource presently has a consensus target price of $1.50, indicating a potential upside of 217.39%. Austin Gold has a consensus target price of $3.00, indicating a potential upside of 229.67%. Given Gold Resource's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Austin Gold is more favorable than Gold Resource.
18.4% of Gold Resource shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.1% of Austin Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.7% of Gold Resource shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 70.7% of Austin Gold shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Gold Resource and Gold Resource both had 1 articles in the media. Austin Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Gold Resource'saverage media sentiment score.
Summary
Austin Gold beats Gold Resource on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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