GAU vs. IAU, AR, VGCX, ORA, CNL, KRR, JAG, and GOLD
Should you be buying Galiano Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Galiano Gold include i-80 Gold (IAU), Argonaut Gold (AR), Victoria Gold (VGCX), Aura Minerals (ORA), Collective Mining (CNL), Karora Resources (KRR), Jaguar Mining (JAG), and GoldMining (GOLD). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
i-80 Gold (TSE:IAU) and Galiano Gold (TSE:GAU) 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, risk, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
Galiano Gold has a consensus price target of C$1.88, indicating a potential downside of 19.87%. Given i-80 Gold's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Galiano Gold is more favorable than i-80 Gold.
In the previous week, Galiano Gold had 11 more articles in the media than i-80 Gold. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Galiano Gold and 2 mentions for i-80 Gold. Galiano Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat i-80 Gold's score of 0.12 indicating that i-80 Gold is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Galiano Gold has a net margin of 40.49% compared to Galiano Gold's net margin of -118.73%. i-80 Gold's return on equity of 6.24% beat Galiano Gold's return on equity.
i-80 Gold has a beta of 1.87, indicating that its share price is 87% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Galiano Gold has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Galiano Gold received 9 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 33.33% of users gave Galiano Gold an outperform vote.
Galiano Gold has lower revenue, but higher earnings than i-80 Gold. i-80 Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Galiano Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
51.9% of i-80 Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.7% of Galiano Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.4% of i-80 Gold shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 23.4% of Galiano Gold shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Galiano Gold beats i-80 Gold on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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