Financial Survey: Allied Gold (AAUC) and Its Competitors

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

Profitability

This table compares Allied Gold and its peers’ 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%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Allied Gold and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Allied Gold	0	1	0	0	2.00
Allied Gold Competitors	386	2195	2626	133	2.47

As a group, “MINING – GOLD” companies have a potential downside of 6.11%. Given Allied Gold’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Allied Gold has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

44.6% of shares of all “MINING – GOLD” companies are owned by institutional investors. 6.0% of shares of all “MINING – GOLD” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Allied Gold and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Allied Gold	$730.38 million	-$115.63 million	-23.63
Allied Gold Competitors	$2.60 billion	$491.91 million	-27.68

Allied Gold’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than Allied Gold. Allied Gold 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

Allied Gold peers beat Allied Gold on 9 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.