Head-To-Head Contrast: Almonty Industries (ALM) and Its Peers

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

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’ competitors have a beta of 1.02, indicating that their average stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

16.0% of shares of all “Metals & Mining” companies are owned by institutional investors. 17.7% of shares of all “Metals & Mining” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Almonty Industries and its competitors’ 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%	-9.09%	-2.06%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings for Almonty Industries and its competitors, as reported 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	6297	22401	31957	1763	2.47

Almonty Industries presently has a consensus price target of $26.81, suggesting a potential upside of 61.81%. As a group, “Metals & Mining” companies have a potential upside of 11.00%. Given Almonty Industries’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Almonty Industries is more favorable than its competitors.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Almonty Industries and its competitors top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Almonty Industries	$23.27 million	-$115.88 million	103.56
Almonty Industries Competitors	$4.63 billion	$277.89 million	-25.53

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

Summary

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

Almonty Industries Company Profile

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.