AUST vs. AUMN, CHNR, GORO, FMST, GURE, MGIH, ELBM, ZKIN, UAMY, and FSI
Should you be buying Austin Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Austin Gold include Golden Minerals (AUMN), China Natural Resources (CHNR), Gold Resource (GORO), Foremost Lithium Resource & Technology (FMST), Gulf Resources (GURE), Millennium Group International (MGIH), Electra Battery Materials (ELBM), ZK International Group (ZKIN), United States Antimony (UAMY), and Flexible Solutions International (FSI). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Golden Minerals (NYSE:AUMN) and Austin Gold (NYSE:AUST) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
Golden Minerals currently has a consensus price target of $7.23, suggesting a potential upside of 1,435.03%. Austin Gold has a consensus price target of $3.00, suggesting a potential upside of 203.03%. Given Austin Gold's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Golden Minerals is more favorable than Austin Gold.
In the previous week, Golden Minerals had 1 more articles in the media than Austin Gold. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Golden Minerals and 5 mentions for Austin Gold. Golden Minerals' average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Austin Gold's score of -0.04 indicating that Austin Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Austin Gold has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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 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.
13.4% of Golden Minerals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.1% of Austin Gold shares are held by institutional investors. 5.0% of Golden Minerals shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 70.7% of Austin Gold shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Golden Minerals has a beta of 0.34, indicating that its share price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Austin Gold has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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 4.17% of users gave Golden Minerals an outperform vote.
Summary
Austin Gold beats Golden Minerals on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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