AR vs. VGCX, GAU, IAU, CNL, JAG, GOLD, and ITH
Should you be buying Argonaut Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Argonaut Gold include Victoria Gold (VGCX), Galiano Gold (GAU), i-80 Gold (IAU), Collective Mining (CNL), Jaguar Mining (JAG), GoldMining (GOLD), and International Tower Hill Mines (ITH). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Victoria Gold (TSE:VGCX) and Argonaut Gold (TSE:AR) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings and profitability.
Victoria Gold has a beta of 1.72, indicating that its share price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Argonaut Gold has a beta of 1.52, indicating that its share price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Argonaut Gold has a net margin of 10.27% compared to Argonaut Gold's net margin of 6.03%. Argonaut Gold's return on equity of 4.43% beat Victoria Gold's return on equity.
In the previous week, Victoria Gold had 1 more articles in the media than Argonaut Gold. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Victoria Gold and 1 mentions for Argonaut Gold. Victoria Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Argonaut Gold's score of 0.50 indicating that Argonaut Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Argonaut Gold received 431 more outperform votes than Victoria Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.78% of users gave Argonaut Gold an outperform vote while only 29.03% of users gave Victoria Gold an outperform vote.
Argonaut Gold has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Victoria Gold. Argonaut Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Victoria Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Victoria Gold currently has a consensus price target of C$13.38, suggesting a potential upside of 85.76%. Argonaut Gold has a consensus price target of C$0.50, suggesting a potential upside of 20.48%. Given Argonaut Gold's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Victoria Gold is more favorable than Argonaut Gold.
45.2% of Victoria Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.4% of Argonaut Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.3% of Victoria Gold shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Argonaut Gold shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Victoria Gold beats Argonaut Gold on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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