AUST vs. AUMN, ODVWZ, FNV, GFI, AU, KGC, OR, SAND, FSM, and CGAU
Should you be buying Austin Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Austin Gold include Golden Minerals (AUMN), Osisko Development (ODVWZ), Franco-Nevada (FNV), Gold Fields (GFI), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), Kinross Gold (KGC), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Sandstorm Gold (SAND), Fortuna Silver Mines (FSM), and Centerra Gold (CGAU). These companies are all part of the "precious metals" industry.
Golden Minerals (NYSE:AUMN) and Austin Gold (NYSE:AUST) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Golden Minerals and Austin Gold both received 2 outperform votes by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Austin Gold an outperform vote while only 5.88% of users gave Golden Minerals an outperform vote.
Austin Gold has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Golden Minerals. Austin Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Golden Minerals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
13.4% of Golden Minerals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.1% of Austin Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 5.0% of Golden Minerals shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 70.7% of Austin Gold shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Austin Gold has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Austin Gold's net margin of -77.16%. Golden Minerals' return on equity of -35.82% beat Austin Gold's return on equity.
Golden Minerals currently has a consensus price target of $6.43, indicating a potential upside of 1,507.50%. Austin Gold has a consensus price target of $3.00, indicating a potential upside of 204.51%. Given Austin Gold's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Golden Minerals is more favorable than Austin Gold.
Golden Minerals has a beta of 0.26, meaning that its share price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Austin Gold has a beta of 1.38, meaning that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Austin Gold had 17 more articles in the media than Golden Minerals. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Austin Gold and 3 mentions for Golden Minerals. Austin Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.44 beat Golden Minerals' score of 0.07 indicating that Golden Minerals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Austin Gold beats Golden Minerals on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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