Head to Head Review: First Quantum Minerals (FQVLF) and Its Peers

First Quantum Minerals (OTCMKTS:FQVLF) is one of 1,984 public companies in the “Metals & Mining” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare First Quantum Minerals to similar businesses based on the strength of its valuation, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk and institutional ownership.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings for First Quantum Minerals and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
First Quantum Minerals	1	1	6	1	2.78
First Quantum Minerals Competitors	6401	22583	32286	1794	2.47

As a group, “Metals & Mining” companies have a potential upside of 30.80%. Given First Quantum Minerals’ competitors higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe First Quantum Minerals has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Profitability

This table compares First Quantum Minerals and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
First Quantum Minerals	2.65%	-0.03%	-0.02%
First Quantum Minerals Competitors	-1,168,050,136,845,918,000.00%	-53.13%	-2.10%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

15.8% of shares of all “Metals & Mining” companies are owned by institutional investors. 17.6% of shares of all “Metals & Mining” companies are owned 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.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares First Quantum Minerals and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
First Quantum Minerals	$5.24 billion	-$28.00 million	114.28
First Quantum Minerals Competitors	$4.65 billion	$278.94 million	-45.50

First Quantum Minerals has higher revenue, but lower earnings than its competitors. First Quantum Minerals is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Risk & Volatility

First Quantum Minerals has a beta of 1.33, indicating that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, First Quantum Minerals’ competitors have a beta of 0.98, indicating that their average stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

First Quantum Minerals beats its competitors on 8 of the 12 factors compared.

First Quantum Minerals Company Profile

First Quantum Minerals Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the exploration, development, and production of mineral properties. It primarily explores for copper, nickel, pyrite, silver, gold, and zinc ores, as well as produces acid. The company has operating mines located in Zambia, Panama, Finland, Turkey, Spain, Australia, and Mauritania, as well as a development project in Zambia. It is exploring the Taca Taca copper-gold-molybdenum project in Argentina, as well as the Haquira copper deposit in Peru. The company was formerly known as First Quantum Ventures Ltd. and changed its name to First Quantum Minerals Ltd. in July 1996. The company is based in Vancouver, Canada.