AUMN vs. ORV, ELR, MPVD, and DIAM
Should you be buying Golden Minerals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Golden Minerals include Orvana Minerals (ORV), Eastern Platinum (ELR), Mountain Province Diamonds (MPVD), and Star Diamond (DIAM). These companies are all part of the "other precious metals & mining" industry.
Golden Minerals (TSE:AUMN) and Orvana Minerals (TSE:ORV) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk and profitability.
Golden Minerals presently has a consensus price target of C$0.73, indicating a potential downside of 3.95%. Given Golden Minerals' higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Golden Minerals is more favorable than Orvana Minerals.
Orvana Minerals received 112 more outperform votes than Golden Minerals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Golden Minerals an outperform vote while only 78.43% of users gave Orvana Minerals an outperform vote.
Orvana Minerals has higher revenue and earnings than Golden Minerals. Orvana Minerals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Golden Minerals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Orvana Minerals had 1 more articles in the media than Golden Minerals. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Orvana Minerals and 0 mentions for Golden Minerals. Orvana Minerals' average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat Golden Minerals' score of 0.00 indicating that Orvana Minerals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
17.3% of Golden Minerals shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Golden Minerals shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 52.0% of Orvana Minerals shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Golden Minerals has a beta of 0.41, suggesting that its share price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Orvana Minerals has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Orvana Minerals has a net margin of -4.81% compared to Golden Minerals' net margin of -76.89%. Orvana Minerals' return on equity of -8.75% beat Golden Minerals' return on equity.
Summary
Orvana Minerals beats Golden Minerals on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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