As Gold businesses, Royal Gold Inc. (NASDAQ:RGLD) and U.S. Gold Corp. (NASDAQ:USAU), are affected by compare. This especially applies to their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, earnings and valuation.

Valuation and Earnings

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Royal Gold Inc.	426.48M	14.28	88.40M	-1.29	0.00
U.S. Gold Corp.	N/A	0.00	9.31M	-0.54	0.00

In table 1 we can see Royal Gold Inc. and U.S. Gold Corp.’s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

Profitability

Table 2 provides us Royal Gold Inc. and U.S. Gold Corp.’s return on assets, net margins and return on equity.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Royal Gold Inc.	-20.73%	-4.2%	-3.3%
U.S. Gold Corp.	0.00%	-78.1%	-76%

Risk & Volatility

A 0.14 beta indicates that Royal Gold Inc. is 86.00% less volatile compared to Standard and Poor’s 500. U.S. Gold Corp.’s 32.00% more volatile than Standard and Poor’s 500 which is a result of the 1.32 beta.

Dividends

Royal Gold Inc. pays out a $1.03 per share dividend on a yearly basis and it also offers 1.11% dividend yield. No dividend is paid out by U.S. Gold Corp.

Analyst Recommendations

Recommendations and Ratings for Royal Gold Inc. and U.S. Gold Corp. can be find in next table.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Royal Gold Inc.	0	2	1	2.33
U.S. Gold Corp.	0	0	0	0.00

Royal Gold Inc. has an average target price of $88.33, and a -5.00% downside potential.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

The shares of both Royal Gold Inc. and U.S. Gold Corp. are owned by institutional investors at 83.3% and 1.5% respectively. Insiders held 0.1% of Royal Gold Inc. shares. Comparatively, insiders own roughly 12.7% of U.S. Gold Corp.’s shares.

Performance

In this table we provide the Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly, Yearly and YTD Performance of both pretenders.

	Performance (W)	Performance (M)	Performance (Q)	Performance (HY)	Performance (Y)	Performance (YTD)
Royal Gold Inc.	-1.87%	0.31%	18.66%	13.46%	7.9%	2.32%
U.S. Gold Corp.	-6.57%	-5.15%	3.81%	-12.68%	-46.61%	3.81%

For the past year Royal Gold Inc. has weaker performance than U.S. Gold Corp.

Summary

Royal Gold Inc. beats on 6 of the 11 factors U.S. Gold Corp.