Head to Head Comparison: Park-Ohio (NASDAQ:PKOH) and Gold.com (NYSE:GOLD)

Gold.com (NYSE:GOLD) and Park-Ohio (NASDAQ:PKOH) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends and profitability.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Gold.com and Park-Ohio, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Gold.com	0	2	4	0	2.67
Park-Ohio	0	2	1	0	2.33

Gold.com presently has a consensus target price of $59.75, suggesting a potential upside of 29.27%. Park-Ohio has a consensus target price of $59.00, suggesting a potential upside of 29.10%. Given Gold.com’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Gold.com is more favorable than Park-Ohio.

Profitability

This table compares Gold.com and Park-Ohio’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Gold.com	0.35%	17.82%	4.21%
Park-Ohio	1.60%	10.55%	2.81%

Dividends

Gold.com pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Park-Ohio pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Gold.com pays out 27.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Park-Ohio pays out 26.6% 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.

Risk & Volatility

Gold.com has a beta of 0.54, meaning that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Park-Ohio has a beta of 1.18, meaning that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

62.9% of Gold.com shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.4% of Park-Ohio shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Gold.com shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 31.1% of Park-Ohio shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Gold.com and Park-Ohio”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Gold.com	$10.98 billion	0.12	$17.32 million	$2.92	15.83
Park-Ohio	$1.65 billion	0.40	$23.80 million	$1.88	24.31

Park-Ohio has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Gold.com. Gold.com is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Park-Ohio, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Gold.com beats Park-Ohio on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Gold.com

A-Mark Precious Metals, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a precious metals trading company. It operates in three segments: Wholesale Sales & Ancillary Services, Direct-to-Consumer, and Secured Lending. The Wholesale Sales & Ancillary Services segment sells gold, silver, platinum, and palladium in the form of bars, plates, powders, wafers, grains, ingots, and coins. This segment also offers various ancillary services, including financing, storage, consignment, logistics, and various customized financial programs; and designs and produces minted silver products. The Direct-to-Consumer segment provides access to an array of gold, silver, copper, platinum, and palladium products through its websites and marketplaces. It operates five company-owned websites targeting specific niches within the precious metals retail market. This segment also operates as a direct retailer of precious metals to the investor community and markets its precious metal products on television, radio, and the internet, as well as through customer service outreach. The Secured Lending segment originates and acquires commercial loans secured by bullion and numismatic coins; and serves coin and precious metal dealers, investors, and collectors. The company serves customers, including financial institutions, bullion retailers, industrial manufacturers and fabricators, sovereign mints, refiners, coin and metal dealers, investors, collectors, and e-commerce and other retail customers. It has operations in the United States, rest of North America, Europe, the Asia Pacific, Africa, and Australia. A-Mark Precious Metals, Inc. was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in El Segundo, California.

About Park-Ohio

Park-Ohio Holdings Corp. provides supply chain management outsourcing services, capital equipment, and manufactured components in the United States, Europe, Asia, Mexico, Canada, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Supply Technologies, Assembly Components, and Engineered Products. The Supply Technologies segment offers Total Supply Management that comprises engineering and design support, part usage and cost analysis, supplier selection, quality assurance, bar coding, product packaging and tracking, just-in-time and point-of-use delivery, electronic billing, and ongoing technical support services, as well as provides spare parts and aftermarket products; and production components, such as valves, fuel hose assemblies, electro-mechanical hardware, labels, fittings, steering components, and other products. This segment also engineers and manufactures precision cold-formed and cold-extruded fasteners, and other products comprising locknuts, SPAC nuts, SPAC bolts, and wheel hardware. The Assembly Components segment offers direct fuel injection fuel rails and pipes, fuel filler pipes, and flexible multi-layer plastic and rubber assemblies; turbo charging and coolant hoses; and value-added services comprising design engineering, machining, and parts assembly. The Engineered Products segment provides engineered products, including induction heating and melting systems, pipe threading systems, and forged and machined products for ferrous and non-ferrous metals, silicon, coatings, forging, foundry, automotive, and construction equipment industries; engineers and installs mechanical forging presses; sells spare parts; field services; and forges aerospace and defense structural components, such as landing gears and struts, as well as rail products comprising railcar center plates and draft lugs. Park-Ohio Holdings Corp. was founded in 1907 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.