Critical Contrast: Northern Dynasty Minerals (NAK) & Its Rivals

Northern Dynasty Minerals (NASDAQ:NAK) is one of 54 publicly-traded companies in the “Gold & Silver Ores” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare Northern Dynasty Minerals to related businesses based on the strength of its institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, valuation, earnings and risk.

Volatility and Risk

Northern Dynasty Minerals has a beta of -0.6, meaning that its stock price is 160% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Northern Dynasty Minerals’ competitors have a beta of 0.83, meaning that their average stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Northern Dynasty Minerals and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Northern Dynasty Minerals	N/A	N/A	-18.55
Northern Dynasty Minerals Competitors	$901.64 million	-$221.11 million	-36.42

Northern Dynasty Minerals’ competitors have higher revenue, but lower earnings than Northern Dynasty Minerals. Northern Dynasty Minerals is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Northern Dynasty Minerals and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Northern Dynasty Minerals	0	0	1	0	3.00
Northern Dynasty Minerals Competitors	464	1112	1054	24	2.24

Northern Dynasty Minerals presently has a consensus target price of $2.50, suggesting a potential upside of 22.55%. As a group, “Gold & Silver Ores” companies have a potential upside of 27.84%. Given Northern Dynasty Minerals’ competitors higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Northern Dynasty Minerals has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Profitability

This table compares Northern Dynasty Minerals and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Northern Dynasty Minerals	N/A	N/A	N/A
Northern Dynasty Minerals Competitors	-56.04%	0.43%	0.77%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

10.6% of Northern Dynasty Minerals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.0% of shares of all “Gold & Silver Ores” companies are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of Northern Dynasty Minerals shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 10.8% of shares of all “Gold & Silver Ores” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Northern Dynasty Minerals competitors beat Northern Dynasty Minerals on 8 of the 12 factors compared.

About Northern Dynasty Minerals

Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. engages in the exploration of mineral properties in the United States. Its principal mineral property is the Pebble Copper-Gold-Molybdenum-Silver-Rhenium project comprising 1,840 mineral claims that covers an area of approximately 274 square miles located in southwest Alaska, 17 miles from the villages of Iliamna and Newhalen, and approximately 200 miles southwest of the city of Anchorage. The company was formerly known as Northern Dynasty Explorations Ltd. and changed its name to Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. in October 1997. Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. was incorporated in 1983 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.