Critical Contrast: Aura Minerals (AUGO) & The Competition

Aura Minerals (NASDAQ:AUGO) is one of 1,987 publicly-traded companies in the “Metals & Mining” industry, but how does it contrast to its rivals? We will compare Aura Minerals to related businesses based on the strength of its valuation, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Aura Minerals and its rivals, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Aura Minerals	0	3	3	0	2.50
Aura Minerals Competitors	6300	22405	31964	1765	2.47

Aura Minerals currently has a consensus price target of $79.27, suggesting a potential downside of 8.97%. As a group, “Metals & Mining” companies have a potential upside of 10.34%. Given Aura Minerals’ rivals higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Aura Minerals has less favorable growth aspects than its rivals.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Aura Minerals and its rivals revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Aura Minerals	$921.73 million	-$79.34 million	24.60
Aura Minerals Competitors	$4.63 billion	$277.23 million	-25.70

Aura Minerals’ rivals have higher revenue and earnings than Aura Minerals. Aura Minerals 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.

Risk & Volatility

Aura Minerals has a beta of 0.28, suggesting that its stock price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aura Minerals’ rivals have a beta of 1.02, suggesting that their average stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

16.0% of shares of all “Metals & Mining” companies are held by institutional investors. 17.7% of shares of all “Metals & Mining” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Dividends

Aura Minerals pays an annual dividend of $2.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Aura Minerals pays out 81.4% 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, “Metals & Mining” companies pay a dividend yield of 9.0% and pay out 10.8% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. Aura Minerals lags its rivals as a dividend stock, given its lower dividend yield and higher payout ratio.

Profitability

This table compares Aura Minerals and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Aura Minerals	23.18%	103.62%	21.84%
Aura Minerals Competitors	-1,161,736,352,322,426,800.00%	-9.08%	-2.06%

Summary

Aura Minerals rivals beat Aura Minerals on 10 of the 15 factors compared.

About Aura Minerals

We are an Americas gold and copper production company with a significant portfolio of mining operations. Our mission is to deliver long-term value by unlocking operational efficiencies, responsibly growing our portfolio with a focus on return on invested capital, responsible mining practices and a commitment to sustainability. We operate with a decentralized culture, supported by a lean corporate team that ensures agile and dynamic management and decision-making processes, focused on high operational sustainability compliance standards. We believe that our success as a gold and copper mining company is the result of a combination of strategic acquisitions, mine expansions and development and efficiency improvements. Backed by a traditional Brazilian family of seasoned gold-focused entrepreneurs and mine developers, as well as a new management team, we have undergone a significant transformation since 2016, enhancing our profitability, replenishing resources and even extending the life-of-mine (LOM) across our operating assets, while also facilitating inorganic expansion — consistently guided by a disciplined commitment to value creation and sustainable growth. We have a track record of expanding and building new mines on-time and on-budget, with ramp-up capabilities, consistent cash flow generation and dividend payments while delivering an attractive return on investment. Our disciplined cost management ensures efficiency in reserve development while we strive to serve as the benchmark for operational security and excellence in project development. Strategically, we prioritize high-IRR (Internal Rate of Return) growth opportunities, balancing capital appreciation with reliable dividend distributions. We currently operate four wholly-owned operating mines and one mine in ramp-up phase. Our operating mines are the Aranzazu copper-gold-silver mine in Mexico, the Apoena and Almas gold mines in Brazil and the Minosa gold mine in Honduras. Additionally, we own and operate the Borborema gold mine in Brazil, which is currently in its ramp-up phase and is expected to achieve commercial production by the third quarter of 2025. In addition to our operating mines, our main development projects are the Era Dorada gold project in Guatemala and the Matupá gold project in Brazil. We have significant exploration potential, owning over 563,558 hectares of mineral rights, and we are currently advancing multiple near-mine and regional targets along with the Carajás (Serra da Estrela) copper project in the prolific Carajás region of Brazil. Our registered office is located the British Virgin Islands.