AMRK vs. GDEN, BYON, IMAX, TILE, MSC, NGMS, SBGI, MNRO, ACEL, and GTN.A
Should you be buying A-Mark Precious Metals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of A-Mark Precious Metals include Golden Entertainment (GDEN), Beyond (BYON), IMAX (IMAX), Interface (TILE), Studio City International (MSC), NeoGames (NGMS), Sinclair (SBGI), Monro (MNRO), Accel Entertainment (ACEL), and Gray Television (GTN.A). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
A-Mark Precious Metals (NASDAQ:AMRK) and Golden Entertainment (NASDAQ:GDEN) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation and community ranking.
Golden Entertainment has a net margin of 30.14% compared to A-Mark Precious Metals' net margin of 0.77%. A-Mark Precious Metals' return on equity of 20.24% beat Golden Entertainment's return on equity.
Golden Entertainment received 90 more outperform votes than A-Mark Precious Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.21% of users gave Golden Entertainment an outperform vote while only 57.26% of users gave A-Mark Precious Metals an outperform vote.
A-Mark Precious Metals has a beta of -0.05, suggesting that its stock price is 105% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Golden Entertainment has a beta of 2.26, suggesting that its stock price is 126% more volatile than the S&P 500.
A-Mark Precious Metals pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Golden Entertainment pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. A-Mark Precious Metals pays out 24.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Golden Entertainment pays out 10.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Golden Entertainment is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
75.3% of A-Mark Precious Metals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.7% of Golden Entertainment shares are held by institutional investors. 23.2% of A-Mark Precious Metals shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 29.1% of Golden Entertainment shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Golden Entertainment has lower revenue, but higher earnings than A-Mark Precious Metals. Golden Entertainment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than A-Mark Precious Metals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
A-Mark Precious Metals presently has a consensus price target of $38.50, indicating a potential downside of 0.70%. Golden Entertainment has a consensus price target of $42.75, indicating a potential upside of 36.45%. Given Golden Entertainment's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Golden Entertainment is more favorable than A-Mark Precious Metals.
In the previous week, A-Mark Precious Metals had 11 more articles in the media than Golden Entertainment. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for A-Mark Precious Metals and 7 mentions for Golden Entertainment. A-Mark Precious Metals' average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Golden Entertainment's score of 0.04 indicating that A-Mark Precious Metals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Golden Entertainment beats A-Mark Precious Metals on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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