Financial Survey: Lundin Mining (LUNMF) vs. The Competition

Lundin Mining (OTC:LUNMF) is one of 113 public companies in the “Metal mining” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its competitors? We will compare Lundin Mining to related companies based on the strength of its valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, risk and profitability.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Lundin Mining and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Lundin Mining	0	1	0	0	2.00
Lundin Mining Competitors	1253	2691	3179	137	2.30

As a group, “Metal mining” companies have a potential upside of 27.18%. Given Lundin Mining’s competitors stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Lundin Mining has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Profitability

This table compares Lundin Mining and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Lundin Mining	-5.15%	5.27%	3.05%
Lundin Mining Competitors	-1,300.59%	-11.20%	-9.41%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

0.1% of Lundin Mining shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.5% of shares of all “Metal mining” companies are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Lundin Mining shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.9% of shares of all “Metal mining” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Dividends

Lundin Mining pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Lundin Mining pays out -92.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Metal mining” companies pay a dividend yield of 3.8% and pay out 70.5% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Valuation & Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Lundin Mining	$3.42 billion	$241.56 million	-32.50
Lundin Mining Competitors	$6.53 billion	$892.01 million	-12.06

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

Risk & Volatility

Lundin Mining has a beta of 1.46, indicating that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lundin Mining’s competitors have a beta of 1.04, indicating that their average stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Lundin Mining competitors beat Lundin Mining on 10 of the 15 factors compared.

Lundin Mining Company Profile

LUNDIN MINING CORPORATION is a rapidly growing, diversified base metals mining company with operations in Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Ireland. The Company currently has six mines in operation producing copper, nickel, lead and zinc. In addition, Lundin Mining holds a development project pipeline which includes the world class Tenke Fungurume copper cobalt project in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Ozernoe zinc project in Russia. The Company holds an extensive exploration portfolio and interests in international mining and exploration ventures.