Allied Gold (AAUC) and Its Competitors Financial Analysis

Allied Gold (NYSE:AAUC) is one of 53 public companies in the “MINING – GOLD” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare Allied Gold to related companies based on the strength of its risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership and dividends.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Allied Gold and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Allied Gold	0	1	0	0	2.00
Allied Gold Competitors	387	2203	2652	136	2.47

As a group, “MINING – GOLD” companies have a potential downside of 9.88%. Given Allied Gold’s competitors stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Allied Gold has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Allied Gold and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Allied Gold	$958.09 million	-$115.63 million	-27.31
Allied Gold Competitors	$5.33 billion	$491.91 million	-25.84

Allied Gold’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Allied Gold. Allied Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

44.6% of shares of all “MINING – GOLD” companies are owned by institutional investors. 6.1% of shares of all “MINING – GOLD” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Allied Gold and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Allied Gold	-13.41%	30.88%	9.23%
Allied Gold Competitors	19.25%	14.00%	9.10%

Summary

Allied Gold competitors beat Allied Gold on 10 of the 12 factors compared.

Allied Gold Company Profile

Allied Gold Corporation is a gold producer. It operates a portfolio of producing assets and development projects located principally in Cote d’Ivoire, Mali and Ethiopia. Allied Gold Corporation is based in Canada.