USA Rare Earth (USAR) vs. Its Competitors Head-To-Head Review

USA Rare Earth (NASDAQ:USAR) is one of 103 public companies in the “MINING – MISC” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare USA Rare Earth to similar businesses based on the strength of its profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, valuation and risk.

Volatility and Risk

USA Rare Earth has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, USA Rare Earth’s competitors have a beta of 0.61, indicating that their average stock price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings for USA Rare Earth and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
USA Rare Earth	1	0	4	0	2.60
USA Rare Earth Competitors	738	1829	3508	170	2.50

USA Rare Earth currently has a consensus price target of $26.33, indicating a potential upside of 51.69%. As a group, “MINING – MISC” companies have a potential upside of 14.03%. Given USA Rare Earth’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe USA Rare Earth is more favorable than its competitors.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares USA Rare Earth and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
USA Rare Earth	N/A	$7.90 million	-64.30
USA Rare Earth Competitors	$10.01 billion	$439.04 million	-17.53

USA Rare Earth’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than USA Rare Earth. USA Rare Earth is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

35.5% of shares of all “MINING – MISC” companies are held by institutional investors. 46.6% of USA Rare Earth shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 9.4% of shares of all “MINING – MISC” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares USA Rare Earth and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
USA Rare Earth	N/A	-16.58%	-29.93%
USA Rare Earth Competitors	-1,016.65%	-12.40%	-4.52%

Summary

USA Rare Earth competitors beat USA Rare Earth on 7 of the 13 factors compared.

About USA Rare Earth

USA Rare Earth, Inc. is domestic supplier of rare earth magnets and heavy rare earth elements. It is developing a vertically integrated, domestic supply chain for rare earth element magnet production, with a facility in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and mining rights to the Round Top heavy rare earth and critical minerals deposit in West Texas. The company was founded in May 2019 and is headquartered in Stillwater, OK.