Financial Analysis: Almonty Industries (ALM) vs. Its Rivals

Almonty Industries (NASDAQ:ALM) is one of 1,987 public companies in the “Metals & Mining” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its rivals? We will compare Almonty Industries to related businesses based on the strength of its risk, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.

Risk and Volatility

Almonty Industries has a beta of 3.75, indicating that its share price is 275% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Almonty Industries’ rivals have a beta of 1.02, indicating that their average share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Almonty Industries and its rivals gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Almonty Industries	$23.27 million	-$115.88 million	96.81
Almonty Industries Competitors	$174.68 billion	$277.89 million	-25.66

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

Profitability

This table compares Almonty Industries and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Almonty Industries	125.89%	9.19%	3.97%
Almonty Industries Competitors	-1,161,736,352,322,426,800.00%	-9.09%	-2.06%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

16.1% of shares of all “Metals & Mining” companies are owned by institutional investors. 17.7% of shares of all “Metals & Mining” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for Almonty Industries and its rivals, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Almonty Industries	0	1	4	1	3.00
Almonty Industries Competitors	6300	22403	31962	1765	2.47

Almonty Industries presently has a consensus price target of $26.81, suggesting a potential upside of 73.10%. As a group, “Metals & Mining” companies have a potential upside of 10.30%. Given Almonty Industries’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Almonty Industries is more favorable than its rivals.

Summary

Almonty Industries beats its rivals on 9 of the 13 factors compared.

Almonty Industries Company Profile

Almonty Industries Inc. is a producer of tungsten concentrate. The Company is currently mining, processing and shipping tungsten concentrate from its Panasqueira Mine in Portugal. Almonty Industries Inc. is based in TORONTO.