Lundin Mining (LUNMF) and The Competition Critical Comparison

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

Dividends

Lundin Mining pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Lundin Mining pays out 77.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. As a group, “Metal mining” companies pay a dividend yield of 3.0% and pay out 50.4% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Lundin Mining and its rivals, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Lundin Mining	0	1	0	0	2.00
Lundin Mining Competitors	1251	2683	3175	136	2.30

As a group, “Metal mining” companies have a potential upside of 22.86%. Given Lundin Mining’s rivals stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Lundin Mining has less favorable growth aspects than its rivals.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Lundin Mining and its rivals top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Lundin Mining	$3.39 billion	$241.56 million	24.17
Lundin Mining Competitors	$6.70 billion	$854.60 million	-12.52

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

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Lundin Mining	6.63%	5.02%	2.92%
Lundin Mining Competitors	-1,301.23%	-11.02%	-9.41%

Volatility & Risk

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 rivals have a beta of 1.04, indicating that their average stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.

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

Summary

Lundin Mining rivals beat Lundin Mining on 9 of the 15 factors compared.

About Lundin Mining

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.