Sand Storm gold “montly stock”
http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/lcddata.html?ticker=sand&fq=D&ezd=1M&index=3

Nolan Watson, the CEO of Sandstorm Gold, explained his company to be one that provides upfront cash to the miners and in return, gets a percent of production at a fixed price, and in turn, earns money by selling it at an increased price. As the interviewer at Fox business stated adequately, Sandstorm is a “bank for miners.”

The SPDR gold trust in the other hand, is defined in its website as a “means of participating in a gold bullion market without the physical delivery of gold” (http://www.spdrgoldshares.com/sites/us/) Therefore making it a manager of the gold that people buy off their stocks..

GLD SPDR montly stock
http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/lcddata.html?ticker=gld

As Nolan Watson mentioned the SPDR GLD stock is only profitable if The gold price is going up, while in SAND, there doesn’t need to be an outstanding increase in gold price in order for an increase on the bottom line,since, a steady flow of money will follow as more gold is mined.  In the current situation where gold price continues to climb, it would seem a smarter idea to invest into GLD straight away rather than invest in SAND, which would still make quite some profit should the gold prices stay up.. However, once the gold price starts to stablize, it might be a better idea to invest in SAND as a fixed flow of gold income will still flow into that company contrary to GLD which will not profit much as long as the gold price doesn’t climb.