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 contrast to its competitors? We will compare Almonty Industries to similar businesses based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, valuation, risk and dividends.

Institutional & 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 large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Almonty Industries and its competitors, 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	6289	22374	31923	1760	2.47

Almonty Industries presently has a consensus target price of $26.81, indicating a potential upside of 52.60%. As a group, “Metals & Mining” companies have a potential upside of 17.02%. Given Almonty Industries’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Almonty Industries is more favorable than its competitors.

Volatility and Risk

Almonty Industries has a beta of 3.75, suggesting that its share price is 275% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Almonty Industries’ competitors have a beta of 1.01, suggesting that their average share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.

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	-1,161,736,352,322,426,600.00%	-16.42%	-2.06%

Valuation & Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Almonty Industries	$23.27 million	-$115.88 million	109.81
Almonty Industries Competitors	$4.75 billion	$273.61 million	-24.84

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.