Head to Head Survey: Almonty Industries (ALM) and The Competition

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

Risk and Volatility

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

Profitability

This table compares Almonty Industries and its peers’ 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%	-9.12%	-2.11%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Almonty Industries and its peers, as provided 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	6303	22410	31976	1766	2.47

Almonty Industries presently has a consensus target price of $26.81, indicating a potential upside of 91.18%. As a group, “Metals & Mining” companies have a potential upside of 14.40%. Given Almonty Industries’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Almonty Industries is more favorable than its peers.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Almonty Industries and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Almonty Industries	$23.27 million	-$115.88 million	87.66
Almonty Industries Competitors	$174.27 billion	$277.23 million	-32.50

Almonty Industries’ peers have higher revenue and earnings than Almonty Industries. Almonty Industries 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.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

15.9% 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, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

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

About Almonty Industries

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.