Head-To-Head Contrast: Almonty Industries (ALM) versus The Competition

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

Volatility and Risk

Almonty Industries has a beta of 3.75, indicating that its share price is 275% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Almonty Industries’ rivals have a beta of 1.02, indicating that their average share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Almonty Industries and its rivals gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Almonty Industries	$23.27 million	-$115.88 million	87.75
Almonty Industries Competitors	$174.27 billion	$277.23 million	-32.48

Almonty Industries’ rivals have higher revenue and earnings than Almonty Industries. Almonty Industries is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its rivals, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Almonty Industries and its rivals, as provided 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	6303	22410	31976	1766	2.47

Almonty Industries currently has a consensus target price of $26.81, indicating a potential upside of 90.97%. As a group, “Metals & Mining” companies have a potential upside of 14.40%. Given Almonty Industries’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Almonty Industries is more favorable than its rivals.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

15.9% of shares of all “Metals & Mining” companies are owned by institutional investors. 17.7% of shares of all “Metals & Mining” companies are owned 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.

Profitability

This table compares Almonty Industries and its rivals’ 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%	-9.12%	-2.11%

Summary

Almonty Industries beats its rivals 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.