IAU vs. KRR, ROXG, PG, RUP, ORA, AGB, EQX, GSC, VGCX, and ODV
Should you be buying i-80 Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of i-80 Gold include Karora Resources (KRR), Roxgold (ROXG), Premier Gold Mines (PG), Rupert Resources (RUP), Aura Minerals (ORA), Atlantic Gold (AGB), Equinox Gold (EQX), Golden Star Resources (GSC), Victoria Gold (VGCX), and Osisko Development (ODV). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
i-80 Gold vs.
i-80 Gold (TSE:IAU) and Karora Resources (TSE:KRR) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Karora Resources has higher revenue and earnings than i-80 Gold. i-80 Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Karora Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
48.8% of i-80 Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.7% of Karora Resources shares are held by institutional investors. 22.9% of i-80 Gold shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Karora Resources shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Karora Resources received 2 more outperform votes than i-80 Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave i-80 Gold an outperform vote while only 25.00% of users gave Karora Resources an outperform vote.
Karora Resources has a net margin of 3.06% compared to i-80 Gold's net margin of -178.66%. Karora Resources' return on equity of 3.55% beat i-80 Gold's return on equity.
In the previous week, Karora Resources had 1 more articles in the media than i-80 Gold. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Karora Resources and 1 mentions for i-80 Gold. Karora Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat i-80 Gold's score of 0.00 indicating that Karora Resources is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
i-80 Gold has a beta of 1.84, meaning that its share price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Karora Resources has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
i-80 Gold currently has a consensus target price of C$5.50, indicating a potential upside of 85.19%. Karora Resources has a consensus target price of C$6.23, indicating a potential upside of 36.70%. Given i-80 Gold's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe i-80 Gold is more favorable than Karora Resources.
Summary
Karora Resources beats i-80 Gold on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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