Mesabi Trust (MSB) and Its Competitors Financial Survey

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

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Mesabi Trust and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Mesabi Trust	0	1	0	0	2.00
Mesabi Trust Competitors	6310	22435	32041	1768	2.47

As a group, “Metals & Mining” companies have a potential upside of 12.06%. Given Mesabi Trust’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Mesabi Trust has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Mesabi Trust and its peers revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Mesabi Trust	$11.21 million	$13.87 million	41.22
Mesabi Trust Competitors	$175.11 billion	$278.43 million	-29.08

Mesabi Trust’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than Mesabi Trust. Mesabi Trust 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.

Profitability

This table compares Mesabi Trust and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Mesabi Trust	54.46%	33.50%	28.16%
Mesabi Trust Competitors	-1,161,736,352,322,426,800.00%	-8.87%	-2.11%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

15.9% of shares of all “Metals & Mining” companies are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Mesabi Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.8% of shares of all “Metals & Mining” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Dividends

Mesabi Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Mesabi Trust pays out 40.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Metals & Mining” companies pay a dividend yield of 9.1% and pay out 10.8% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. Mesabi Trust lags its peers as a dividend stock, given its lower dividend yield and higher payout ratio.

Volatility and Risk

Mesabi Trust has a beta of 0.34, indicating that its stock price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mesabi Trust’s peers have a beta of 1.02, indicating that their average stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Mesabi Trust peers beat Mesabi Trust on 11 of the 15 factors compared.

About Mesabi Trust

Mesabi Trust, a royalty trust, engages in iron ore mining business in the United States. Mesabi Trust was founded in 1961 and is based in New York, New York.