TML vs. RIO, MQR, ITH, ALO, F, ASO, LGD, FF, LME, and LIO
Should you be buying Treasury Metals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Treasury Metals include Rio2 (RIO), Monarch Gold Co. (MQR.TO) (MQR), International Tower Hill Mines (ITH), Alio Gold Inc. (ALO.TO) (ALO), Fiore Gold (F), Avesoro Resources (ASO), Liberty Gold (LGD), First Mining Gold (FF), Laurion Mineral Exploration (LME), and Lion One Metals (LIO). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Treasury Metals (TSE:TML) and Rio2 (CVE:RIO) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, earnings, dividends and risk.
Treasury Metals has a beta of 1.56, indicating that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rio2 has a beta of 2.34, indicating that its share price is 134% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Treasury Metals currently has a consensus price target of C$0.30, suggesting a potential upside of 22.45%. Rio2 has a consensus price target of C$0.60, suggesting a potential upside of 9.09%. Given Treasury Metals' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Treasury Metals is more favorable than Rio2.
Rio2 has higher revenue and earnings than Treasury Metals. Rio2 is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Treasury Metals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Treasury Metals received 9 more outperform votes than Rio2 when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.34% of users gave Treasury Metals an outperform vote while only 62.50% of users gave Rio2 an outperform vote.
Treasury Metals' return on equity of -13.15% beat Rio2's return on equity.
27.7% of Treasury Metals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.0% of Rio2 shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.4% of Treasury Metals shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.3% of Rio2 shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Rio2 had 4 more articles in the media than Treasury Metals. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Rio2 and 0 mentions for Treasury Metals. Treasury Metals' average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Rio2's score of -0.46 indicating that Treasury Metals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Rio2 beats Treasury Metals on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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