Verdict: Side-by-side breakdown using the Bull Rankings model. B scored 70.3, AYA scored 70.4 — AYA leads.
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Different reporting periods. AYA's fundamentals are as of June 2026, but B's are as of December 2025 — a 6-month gap. Growth, margin and valuation figures below therefore describe different windows and aren't strictly like-for-like.
B
Barrick Mining Corporation
Gold · Quality-Growth
70.3
$41.06 · $67.6B
fundamentals as of
Score gap
0.1
AYA leads
AYA
Aya Gold & Silver Inc.
Silver · Quality-Growth
70.4
$27.42 · $3.9B
fundamentals as of
At a glance · who leads each dimension, on the model's own rules
CheapestB10.3x
Fastest growthAYA+416.7%
Strongest balance sheetB0.13
Highest qualityAYA93 / 100
Largest discount to fair valueB-17%
Side by side · every name on one set of axes
Growth against the P/E multiple. Up and to the right is cheaper and faster — the quality-growth idea in one picture. Points beyond the axis are pinned to the edge and marked off-scale rather than allowed to compress everything else.
The model, pillar by pillar (0–100 each)
B
stronger →← stronger
AYA
90
Qualityreturns · margins · balance sheet
93
50
Growthrevenue & earnings expansion
50
77
Valuevaluation vs sector peers
75
B and AYA split the three pillars evenly.
Fundamentals, head-to-head
B
AYA
$3.9bB
FCF
$88mC-
+31.2%A
Rev
+416.7%A
0.13A-
D/E
0.17B+
10.3xA-
P/E
35.6xC
2.04C
PEG
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Winner per row is the stronger grade; where grades tie, the better figure breaks it. A true tie or a missing value shows no highlight.
Valuation · DCF cross-check
B
AYA
17% below
Price vs fair valuelower is cheaper
199% above
~10%/yr
Growth the price impliesyr-1 FCF growth, fading to 4% · lower = less priced in
~47%/yr
-8%
1-yr DCF upside
-74%
+20%
5-yr DCF upside
-67%
+75%
10-yr DCF upside
-53%
The DCF is a cross-check on intrinsic value, separate from the quality-growth score above.
Model signals
B
Why this score
Buying back stock
Raising its dividend
Cyclical growth
AYA
Why this score
Cyclical growth
Short track record
The companies
BBarrick Mining Corporation
Gold · $41.06 · beta 1.14
Why now
Gold · market cap $67.6b. Down 25% from 52-week high of $54.69 — deep drawdown territory. Revenue growing +31% — in hypergrowth territory. 16 sell-side analysts rate this a Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $51.70 (implying +26% upside).
Moat
Net margin 42% is exceptional — pricing-power territory rare outside premium software, branded staples, and specialty pharma. ROE 20% is above 15% — the equity base is compounding at a rate the market struggles to discount accurately. $67.6b market cap gives the company enough scale to absorb fixed costs that subscale competitors can't, without yet being so large that growth has to come from acquisition.
Risk
Reserve-replacement treadmill — every barrel or ounce extracted has to be replaced through exploration or acquisition; underspending on replacement reserves shows up in production declines 2-3 years out.
AYAAya Gold & Silver Inc.
Silver · $27.42 · beta 1.68
Why now
Silver · market cap $3.9b. 11% off the 52-week high of $30.67. Revenue growing +417% — in hypergrowth territory.
Moat
Net margin 33% is exceptional — pricing-power territory rare outside premium software, branded staples, and specialty pharma. ROE 26% — top-decile capital efficiency. Either pricing leverage, low capital intensity, or aggressive buybacks; the durability story depends on which.
Risk
Beta 1.68 implies above-market volatility — position-size to the drawdowns this name will produce in a market correction, not to its bull-case return. Trailing P/E 36x sits well above the S&P median (~20x) — multiple compression is a real risk if revenue growth decelerates. P/S 11.5x embeds aggressive forward growth — disappointing top-line guidance would compress the multiple hard.
Verdict — model-derived comparison
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Common questions
Is AYA or B the better stock?
AYA scores higher: AYA 70.4, B 70.3 out of 100 on the Bull Rankings quality-growth score, which blends business quality, growth and valuation into one number. A higher score means a stronger business at a more reasonable price — it is not a price target or a recommendation.
How are AYA and B scored?
Each carries the same 0–100 quality-growth score used everywhere on the site, built from three pillars — quality (profitability and returns on capital), growth (revenue and earnings), and value (what you pay for them) — combined as a geometric mean, so a weak pillar cannot be papered over by a strong one.
How current is this comparison?
The whole universe is re-scored every trading day after the US market close, so the scores and fundamentals here reflect the latest published edition.