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.
Golden Entertainment (NASDAQ:GDEN) and A-Mark Precious Metals (NASDAQ:AMRK) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, earnings and risk.
70.7% of Golden Entertainment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.3% of A-Mark Precious Metals shares are held by institutional investors. 29.1% of Golden Entertainment shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 23.2% of A-Mark Precious Metals shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Golden Entertainment currently has a consensus target price of $42.75, suggesting a potential upside of 36.45%. A-Mark Precious Metals has a consensus target price of $38.50, suggesting a potential downside of 0.70%. Given A-Mark Precious Metals' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Golden Entertainment is more favorable than A-Mark Precious Metals.
Golden Entertainment pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. A-Mark Precious Metals pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Golden Entertainment pays out 10.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. A-Mark Precious Metals pays out 24.5% 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. A-Mark Precious Metals has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Golden Entertainment is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Golden Entertainment has a net margin of 30.14% compared to Golden Entertainment's net margin of 0.77%. Golden Entertainment's return on equity of 20.24% beat A-Mark Precious Metals' return on equity.
In the previous week, A-Mark Precious Metals had 12 more articles in the media than Golden Entertainment. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for A-Mark Precious Metals and 7 mentions for Golden Entertainment. Golden Entertainment's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat A-Mark Precious Metals' score of 0.04 indicating that A-Mark Precious Metals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Golden Entertainment has a beta of 2.26, suggesting that its share price is 126% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, A-Mark Precious Metals has a beta of -0.05, suggesting that its share price is 105% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
Golden Entertainment has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
Summary
Golden Entertainment beats A-Mark Precious Metals on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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