AAU vs. ALTN, KEFI, LEX, CGH, PAT, GDP, ORR, XTR, CORA, and HUM
Should you be buying Ariana Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ariana Resources include AltynGold (ALTN), KEFI Gold and Copper (KEFI), Lexington Gold (LEX), Chaarat Gold (CGH), Panthera Resources (PAT), Goldplat (GDP), Oriole Resources (ORR), Xtract Resources (XTR), Cora Gold (CORA), and Hummingbird Resources (HUM). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
AltynGold (LON:ALTN) and Ariana Resources (LON:AAU) 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 profitability, earnings, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.
Ariana Resources received 75 more outperform votes than AltynGold when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.10% of users gave AltynGold an outperform vote while only 53.04% of users gave Ariana Resources an outperform vote.
5.8% of AltynGold shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.6% of Ariana Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 66.5% of AltynGold shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 21.0% of Ariana Resources shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
AltynGold has a net margin of 9.28% compared to AltynGold's net margin of 0.00%. Ariana Resources' return on equity of 8.43% beat AltynGold's return on equity.
AltynGold has a beta of 1.09, meaning that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ariana Resources has a beta of 0.69, meaning that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Ariana Resources had 1 more articles in the media than AltynGold. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Ariana Resources and 0 mentions for AltynGold. AltynGold's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Ariana Resources' score of 0.00 indicating that Ariana Resources is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
AltynGold has higher revenue and earnings than Ariana Resources.
Summary
AltynGold beats Ariana Resources on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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