Almonty Industries (NASDAQ:ALM – Get Free Report) and Cleveland-Cliffs (NYSE:CLF – Get Free Report) are both mid-cap materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, profitability, valuation and risk.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
67.7% of Cleveland-Cliffs shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Cleveland-Cliffs shares are owned 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.
Risk & Volatility
Almonty Industries has a beta of 3.75, meaning that its stock price is 275% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cleveland-Cliffs has a beta of 2.1, meaning that its stock price is 110% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Recommendations
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Almonty Industries | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3.00 |
| Cleveland-Cliffs | 2 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 2.00 |
Almonty Industries currently has a consensus price target of $26.81, indicating a potential upside of 52.60%. Cleveland-Cliffs has a consensus price target of $11.96, indicating a potential downside of 4.24%. Given Almonty Industries’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Almonty Industries is more favorable than Cleveland-Cliffs.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Almonty Industries and Cleveland-Cliffs”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Almonty Industries | $23.27 million | 217.54 | -$115.88 million | $0.16 | 109.81 |
| Cleveland-Cliffs | $18.61 billion | 0.38 | -$1.48 billion | ($1.62) | -7.71 |
Almonty Industries has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Cleveland-Cliffs. Cleveland-Cliffs is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Almonty Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Almonty Industries and Cleveland-Cliffs’ 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% |
| Cleveland-Cliffs | -4.56% | -13.37% | -3.96% |
Summary
Almonty Industries beats Cleveland-Cliffs on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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.
About Cleveland-Cliffs
Cleveland-Cliffs is the largest flat-rolled steel company and the largest iron ore pellet producer in North America. The company is vertically integrated from mining through iron making, steelmaking, rolling, finishing and downstream with hot and cold stamping of steel parts and components. The company was formerly known as Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. and changed its name to Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. in August 2017. Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. was founded in 1847 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.
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