Jaguar Mining (JAGGD) versus Its Competitors Head to Head Comparison

Jaguar Mining (OTCMKTS:JAGGD) is one of 111 publicly-traded companies in the “Metal Mining” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Jaguar Mining to related companies based on the strength of its institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, valuation and earnings.

Profitability

This table compares Jaguar Mining and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Jaguar Mining	28.17%	26.75%	17.80%
Jaguar Mining Competitors	-812.63%	-11.86%	-9.96%

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Jaguar Mining and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Jaguar Mining	$97.23 million	-$150,000.00	6.78
Jaguar Mining Competitors	$6.72 billion	$973.46 million	-5.15

Jaguar Mining’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than Jaguar Mining. Jaguar Mining 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.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

27.5% of shares of all “Metal Mining” companies are held by institutional investors. 12.8% of shares of all “Metal Mining” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Jaguar Mining and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Jaguar Mining	0	0	0	0	N/A
Jaguar Mining Competitors	1197	2573	3131	123	2.31

As a group, “Metal Mining” companies have a potential upside of 30.30%. Given Jaguar Mining’s peers higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Jaguar Mining has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Risk & Volatility

Jaguar Mining has a beta of 2.75, indicating that its share price is 175% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Jaguar Mining’s peers have a beta of 1.15, indicating that their average share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Dividends

Jaguar Mining pays an annual dividend of $0.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. Jaguar Mining pays out 49.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Metal Mining” companies pay a dividend yield of 3.0% and pay out 63.6% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. Jaguar Mining is clearly a better dividend stock than its peers, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Summary

Jaguar Mining beats its peers on 7 of the 12 factors compared.

Jaguar Mining Company Profile

Jaguar Mining, Inc. engages in the acquisition, exploration, development and operation of gold producing properties in Brazil. Its mining operations include Turmalina, Paciência and Caeté. The firm is also developing the Grurupi Project and exploring the Iron Quadrangle and Pedra Branca Project. The company was founded by Daniel R. Titcomb in 1984 and is headquartered Toronto, Canada.