Avalon Advanced Materials (AVL) Competitors

Titan Mining (TSE:TI) and Avalon Advanced Materials (TSE:AVL) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, risk, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership and media sentiment.

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of TI or AVL?

5.2% of Titan Mining shares are held by institutional investors. 57.3% of Titan Mining shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 21.6% of Avalon Advanced Materials shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Which has stronger valuation & earnings, TI or AVL?

Avalon Advanced Materials has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Titan Mining. Avalon Advanced Materials is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Titan Mining, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Titan Mining	C$52.09M	1.01	-C$10.21M	-C$0.07	-5.50
Avalon Advanced Materials	C$21.77K	1,802.16	C$1.09M	-C$0.01	-7.00

Is TI or AVL more profitable?

Avalon Advanced Materials has a net margin of 1,100.59% compared to Avalon Advanced Materials' net margin of -19.60%. Titan Mining's return on equity of 0.89% beat Avalon Advanced Materials' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Titan Mining	-19.60%	-247.73%	-14.86%
Avalon Advanced Materials	1,100.59%	0.89%	-2.44%

Do analysts prefer TI or AVL?

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Titan Mining	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A
Avalon Advanced Materials	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in TI or AVL?

Titan Mining received 1 more outperform votes than Avalon Advanced Materials when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.52% of users gave Avalon Advanced Materials an outperform vote while only 62.71% of users gave Titan Mining an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Titan Mining	Outperform Votes 74 62.71%	Underperform Votes 44 37.29%
Avalon Advanced Materials	Outperform Votes 73 69.52%	Underperform Votes 32 30.48%

Which has more risk and volatility, TI or AVL?

Titan Mining has a beta of -0.07, suggesting that its share price is 107% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Avalon Advanced Materials has a beta of 1.22, suggesting that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media favor TI or AVL?

In the previous week, Titan Mining had 7 more articles in the media than Avalon Advanced Materials. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Titan Mining and 1 mentions for Avalon Advanced Materials. Titan Mining's average media sentiment score of 0.29 beat Avalon Advanced Materials' score of 0.21 indicating that Avalon Advanced Materials is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Titan Mining	1 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Avalon Advanced Materials	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Summary

Avalon Advanced Materials beats Titan Mining on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.