U.S. GoldMining (USGO) Competitors

i-80 Gold (NYSE:IAUX) and U.S. GoldMining (NASDAQ:USGO) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, community ranking, valuation and media sentiment.

Do analysts rate IAUX or USGO?

i-80 Gold presently has a consensus target price of $3.50, indicating a potential upside of 486.26%. U.S. GoldMining has a consensus target price of $26.50, indicating a potential upside of 150.95%. Given i-80 Gold's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe i-80 Gold is more favorable than U.S. GoldMining.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
i-80 Gold	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.75
U.S. GoldMining	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Which has more risk & volatility, IAUX or USGO?

i-80 Gold has a beta of 1.26, indicating that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, U.S. GoldMining has a beta of 2.43, indicating that its share price is 143% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Which has higher valuation & earnings, IAUX or USGO?

U.S. GoldMining has lower revenue, but higher earnings than i-80 Gold.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
i-80 Gold	$50.34M	5.26	-$65.20M	-$0.29	-2.06
U.S. GoldMining	N/A	N/A	-$9.36M	N/A	N/A

Is IAUX or USGO more profitable?

U.S. GoldMining has a net margin of 0.00% compared to i-80 Gold's net margin of -231.43%. i-80 Gold's return on equity of -21.18% beat U.S. GoldMining's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
i-80 Gold	-231.43%	-21.18%	-12.67%
U.S. GoldMining	N/A	-71.04%	-65.02%

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in IAUX or USGO?

U.S. GoldMining received 5 more outperform votes than i-80 Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 87.50% of users gave U.S. GoldMining an outperform vote while only 28.57% of users gave i-80 Gold an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
i-80 Gold	Outperform Votes 2 28.57%	Underperform Votes 5 71.43%
U.S. GoldMining	Outperform Votes 7 87.50%	Underperform Votes 1 12.50%

Does the media refer more to IAUX or USGO?

In the previous week, i-80 Gold had 4 more articles in the media than U.S. GoldMining. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for i-80 Gold and 3 mentions for U.S. GoldMining. U.S. GoldMining's average media sentiment score of 0.22 beat i-80 Gold's score of 0.21 indicating that U.S. GoldMining is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
i-80 Gold	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	5 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
U.S. GoldMining	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in IAUX or USGO?

61.3% of i-80 Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.5% of U.S. GoldMining shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of U.S. GoldMining shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

U.S. GoldMining beats i-80 Gold on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.