Reviewing Namib Minerals (NAMM) and Its Peers

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

Profitability

This table compares Namib Minerals and its peers’ 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%

Volatility and Risk

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’ peers have a beta of 0.83, indicating that their average stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Namib Minerals and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) 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	-37.08

Namib Minerals’ peers have higher revenue, but lower earnings than Namib Minerals. Namib Minerals 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.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Namib Minerals and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	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’ peers stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Namib Minerals has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

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

Summary

Namib Minerals peers 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.