GORO vs. TRX, VOXR, HYMC, USGO, VGZ, AUST, CHNR, AUMN, NEM, and AEM
Should you be buying Gold Resource stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gold Resource include TRX Gold (TRX), Vox Royalty (VOXR), Hycroft Mining (HYMC), U.S. GoldMining (USGO), Vista Gold (VGZ), Austin Gold (AUST), China Natural Resources (CHNR), Golden Minerals (AUMN), Newmont (NEM), and Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM). These companies are all part of the "gold & silver ores" industry.
Gold Resource (NYSE:GORO) and TRX Gold (NYSE:TRX) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Gold Resource currently has a consensus target price of $1.50, suggesting a potential upside of 222.10%. TRX Gold has a consensus target price of $1.58, suggesting a potential upside of 226.76%. Given TRX Gold's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe TRX Gold is more favorable than Gold Resource.
In the previous week, TRX Gold had 1 more articles in the media than Gold Resource. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for TRX Gold and 2 mentions for Gold Resource. TRX Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat Gold Resource's score of 0.16 indicating that TRX Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
TRX Gold has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Gold Resource. Gold Resource is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TRX Gold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
TRX Gold received 1 more outperform votes than Gold Resource when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 10.00% of users gave Gold Resource an outperform vote while only 4.08% of users gave TRX Gold an outperform vote.
Gold Resource has a beta of 1.58, suggesting that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TRX Gold has a beta of 0.59, suggesting that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
TRX Gold has a net margin of 0.70% compared to Gold Resource's net margin of -22.30%. TRX Gold's return on equity of -1.66% beat Gold Resource's return on equity.
18.4% of Gold Resource shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.1% of TRX Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.7% of Gold Resource shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of TRX Gold shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
TRX Gold beats Gold Resource on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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