Analyzing Namib Minerals (NAMM) and The Competition

Namib Minerals (NASDAQ:NAMM) is one of 54 public companies in the “Gold & Silver Ores” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its rivals? We will compare Namib Minerals to similar businesses based on the strength of its institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Namib Minerals and its rivals revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Namib Minerals	N/A	-$20.75 million	-2.07
Namib Minerals Competitors	$901.64 million	-$221.11 million	-37.23

Namib Minerals’ rivals have higher revenue, but lower earnings than Namib Minerals. Namib Minerals 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 summary of current recommendations for Namib Minerals and its rivals, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Namib Minerals	1	0	0	0	1.00
Namib Minerals Competitors	462	1110	1051	24	2.24

As a group, “Gold & Silver Ores” companies have a potential upside of 18.90%. Given Namib Minerals’ rivals stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Namib Minerals has less favorable growth aspects than its rivals.

Profitability

This table compares Namib Minerals and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Namib Minerals	N/A	N/A	-56.66%
Namib Minerals Competitors	-56.04%	0.43%	0.77%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

59.5% of Namib Minerals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.9% of shares of all “Gold & Silver Ores” companies are held by institutional investors. 30.5% of Namib Minerals shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 10.8% of shares of all “Gold & Silver Ores” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk & Volatility

Namib Minerals has a beta of -0.11, indicating that its stock price is 111% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Namib Minerals’ rivals have a beta of 0.83, indicating that their average stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Namib Minerals rivals beat Namib Minerals on 8 of the 13 factors compared.

Namib Minerals Company Profile

Namib Minerals is a gold producer, developer and explorer with operations focused principally in Zimbabwe. Namib Minerals, formerly known as Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VI, is based in New York.