AUMN vs. AUST, CHNR, NEM, AEM, GOLD, WPM, FNV, GFI, AU, and KGC
Should you be buying Golden Minerals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Golden Minerals include Austin Gold (AUST), China Natural Resources (CHNR), Newmont (NEM), Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM), Barrick Gold (GOLD), Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), Franco-Nevada (FNV), Gold Fields (GFI), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), and Kinross Gold (KGC). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
Austin Gold (NYSE:AUST) and Golden Minerals (NYSE:AUMN) 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 dividends, earnings, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
Austin Gold has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Golden Minerals. Austin Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Golden Minerals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Austin Gold has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Golden Minerals has a beta of 0.34, meaning that its share price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Austin Gold currently has a consensus price target of $3.00, indicating a potential upside of 233.96%. Golden Minerals has a consensus price target of $7.23, indicating a potential upside of 1,375.81%. Given Austin Gold's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Golden Minerals is more favorable than Austin Gold.
Austin Gold received 1 more outperform votes than Golden Minerals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 100.00% of users gave Austin Gold an outperform vote while only 3.85% of users gave Golden Minerals an outperform vote.
Austin Gold has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Austin Gold's net margin of -77.16%. Golden Minerals' return on equity of -35.82% beat Austin Gold's return on equity.
62.1% of Austin Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.4% of Golden Minerals shares are owned by institutional investors. 70.7% of Austin Gold shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.0% of Golden Minerals shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Austin Gold had 9 more articles in the media than Golden Minerals. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Austin Gold and 1 mentions for Golden Minerals. Golden Minerals' average media sentiment score of 0.28 beat Austin Gold's score of 0.00 indicating that Austin Gold is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Austin Gold beats Golden Minerals on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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