Head to Head Comparison: Almonty Industries (ALM) versus Its Rivals

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Almonty Industries and its peers, 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	6309	22428	32007	1767	2.47

Almonty Industries currently has a consensus price target of $26.81, suggesting a potential upside of 89.76%. As a group, “Metals & Mining” companies have a potential upside of 9.85%. Given Almonty Industries’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Almonty Industries is more favorable than its peers.

Risk and Volatility

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

Profitability

This table compares Almonty Industries and its peers’ 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%	-9.04%	-2.11%

Insider and Institutional 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 large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings and Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Almonty Industries	$23.27 million	-$115.88 million	88.31
Almonty Industries Competitors	$5.18 billion	$277.76 million	-28.89

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

Summary

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

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.