Critical Contrast: United States Antimony (UAMY) and Its Rivals

United States Antimony (NYSE:UAMY) is one of 1,987 publicly-traded companies in the “Metals & Mining” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare United States Antimony to similar companies based on the strength of its earnings, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

9.5% of United States Antimony shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.9% of shares of all “Metals & Mining” companies are held by institutional investors. 5.5% of United States Antimony shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 17.7% of shares of all “Metals & Mining” 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.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for United States Antimony and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
United States Antimony	1	0	4	0	2.60
United States Antimony Competitors	6310	22435	32048	1767	2.47

United States Antimony currently has a consensus target price of $10.12, suggesting a potential upside of 110.19%. As a group, “Metals & Mining” companies have a potential upside of 10.62%. Given United States Antimony’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe United States Antimony is more favorable than its peers.

Profitability

This table compares United States Antimony and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
United States Antimony	-44.60%	-5.29%	-4.86%
United States Antimony Competitors	-1,161,736,352,322,426,600.00%	-8.87%	-2.11%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares United States Antimony and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
United States Antimony	$39.26 million	-$4.34 million	-37.05
United States Antimony Competitors	$4.67 billion	$277.89 million	-29.09

United States Antimony’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than United States Antimony. United States Antimony is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Volatility and Risk

United States Antimony has a beta of 0.39, indicating that its stock price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, United States Antimony’s peers have a beta of 1.02, indicating that their average stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

United States Antimony peers beat United States Antimony on 8 of the 13 factors compared.

United States Antimony Company Profile

United States Antimony Corporation produces and sells antimony, silver, gold, precious metals, and zeolite products in the United States, and Canada. It operates through Antimony, Zeolite, and Precious Metals segments. The company offers antimony oxide that is primarily used in conjunction with a halogen to form a synergistic flame retardant system for plastics, rubber, fiberglass, textile goods, paints, coatings, and paper, as well as color fastener in paints and as a phosphorescent agent in fluorescent light bulbs; antimony trisulfide used as a primer in ammunition; and antimony metal for use in bearings, storage batteries, and ordnance. The company also offers coarse and fine zeolite for soil amendment and fertilizer, water filtration, sewage treatment, nuclear waste and other environmental cleanup, odor control, gas separation, and animal nutrition applications, as well as in catalysts, petroleum refining, concrete, solar energy and heat exchange, desiccants, pellet binding, horse and kitty litter, and floor cleaners, as well as carriers for insecticides, pesticides, and herbicides. In addition, it recovers unrefined and refined gold and silver. United States Antimony Corporation was founded in 1968 and is based in Thompson Falls, Montana.