American Resources (AREC) & Its Rivals Head-To-Head Survey

American Resources (NASDAQ:AREC) is one of 1,984 public companies in the “Metals & Mining” industry, but how does it compare to its peers? We will compare American Resources to similar businesses based on the strength of its dividends, profitability, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for American Resources and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
American Resources	1	0	2	0	2.33
American Resources Competitors	6406	22609	32307	1801	2.47

American Resources presently has a consensus target price of $6.50, indicating a potential upside of 496.33%. As a group, “Metals & Mining” companies have a potential upside of 25.46%. Given American Resources’ higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe American Resources is more favorable than its peers.

Volatility & Risk

American Resources has a beta of 1.15, meaning that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Resources’ peers have a beta of 0.96, meaning that their average stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

9.3% of American Resources shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.9% of shares of all “Metals & Mining” companies are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of American Resources shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 17.7% of shares of all “Metals & Mining” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares American Resources and its peers revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
American Resources	$380,000.00	$55.41 million	-2.66
American Resources Competitors	$5.21 billion	$278.94 million	-26.22

American Resources’ peers have higher revenue and earnings than American Resources. American 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 American Resources and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
American Resources	N/A	N/A	N/A
American Resources Competitors	-1,164,884,689,320,590,400.00%	-52.92%	-2.03%

Summary

American Resources beats its peers on 7 of the 13 factors compared.

About American Resources

American Resources Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, extracts, processes, transports, and sells metallurgical coal to the steel and industrial industries. It supplies raw materials; and sells coal used in pulverized coal injections. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Fishers, Indiana.