ORA vs. KRR, IAU, GAU, OSK, VGCX, AR, CXB, CNL, and JAG
Should you be buying Aura Minerals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aura Minerals include Karora Resources (KRR), i-80 Gold (IAU), Galiano Gold (GAU), Osisko Mining (OSK), Victoria Gold (VGCX), Argonaut Gold (AR), Calibre Mining (CXB), Collective Mining (CNL), and Jaguar Mining (JAG). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Aura Minerals (TSE:ORA) and Karora Resources (TSE:KRR) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking and dividends.
Aura Minerals received 100 more outperform votes than Karora Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.98% of users gave Aura Minerals an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave Karora Resources an outperform vote.
4.0% of Aura Minerals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.1% of Karora Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 53.2% of Aura Minerals shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Karora Resources shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Aura Minerals has a beta of 0.38, meaning that its stock price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Karora Resources has a beta of 2, meaning that its stock price is 100% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Aura Minerals has a net margin of 7.65% compared to Karora Resources' net margin of 2.14%. Aura Minerals' return on equity of 10.20% beat Karora Resources' return on equity.
In the previous week, Karora Resources had 1 more articles in the media than Aura Minerals. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Karora Resources and 4 mentions for Aura Minerals. Aura Minerals' average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Karora Resources' score of -0.22 indicating that Aura Minerals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Aura Minerals currently has a consensus target price of C$15.00, indicating a potential upside of 47.35%. Karora Resources has a consensus target price of C$6.58, indicating a potential upside of 20.29%. Given Aura Minerals' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Aura Minerals is more favorable than Karora Resources.
Aura Minerals has higher revenue and earnings than Karora Resources. Aura Minerals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Karora Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Aura Minerals beats Karora Resources on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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