Financial Contrast: Mineral Resources (MALRF) and Its Competitors

Dividends

Mineral Resources pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Mineral Resources pays out 24.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Metals & Mining” companies pay a dividend yield of 9.3% and pay out 10.6% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. Mineral Resources lags its peers as a dividend stock, given its lower dividend yield and higher payout ratio.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

34.3% of Mineral Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.9% of shares of all “Metals & Mining” companies are owned by institutional investors. 17.6% of shares of all “Metals & Mining” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Mineral Resources and its peers revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Mineral Resources	N/A	N/A	37.71
Mineral Resources Competitors	$169.61 billion	$266.77 million	-20.33

Mineral Resources’ peers have higher revenue and earnings than Mineral Resources. Mineral Resources is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Profitability

This table compares Mineral Resources and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Mineral Resources	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mineral Resources Competitors	-1,155,490,457,955,101,400.00%	-14.43%	-2.06%

Summary

Mineral Resources beats its peers on 5 of the 9 factors compared.

About Mineral Resources

Mineral Resources Limited, together with subsidiaries, operates as a mining services company in Australia, Asia, and internationally. It operates through five segments: Mining Services, Iron Ore, Lithium, Energy, and Other Commodities. The company offers contract crushing, screening, and processing; specialized mine services, including materials handling, plant and equipment hire and maintenance, tails recovery, and aggregate crushing; and design, engineering, and construction services for resources sector. It also manages the processing, production, logistics, ship loading, marketing, and export of commodities on behalf of tenement owners; and provides specialist parts to the mining, quarrying, and recycling industries. In addition, the company has a portfolio of iron ore assets; and holds interests in the Mount Marion and Wodgina lithium projects located in Western Australia. Mineral Resources Limited was founded in 1993 and is based in Osborne Park, Australia.