Financial Survey: Northern Dynasty Minerals (NAK) vs. Its Peers

Northern Dynasty Minerals (NASDAQ:NAK) is one of 54 publicly-traded companies in the “Gold & Silver Ores” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare Northern Dynasty Minerals to related companies based on the strength of its dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

10.6% of Northern Dynasty Minerals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.0% of shares of all “Gold & Silver Ores” companies are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of Northern Dynasty Minerals shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.8% of shares of all “Gold & Silver Ores” 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.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for Northern Dynasty Minerals and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Northern Dynasty Minerals	0	0	1	0	3.00
Northern Dynasty Minerals Competitors	464	1112	1054	24	2.24

Northern Dynasty Minerals presently has a consensus target price of $2.50, suggesting a potential upside of 26.26%. As a group, “Gold & Silver Ores” companies have a potential upside of 32.88%. Given Northern Dynasty Minerals’ competitors higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Northern Dynasty Minerals has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Northern Dynasty Minerals and its competitors top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Northern Dynasty Minerals	N/A	N/A	-18.00
Northern Dynasty Minerals Competitors	$901.64 million	-$221.11 million	-35.44

Northern Dynasty Minerals’ competitors have higher revenue, but lower earnings than Northern Dynasty Minerals. Northern Dynasty 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.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Northern Dynasty Minerals	N/A	N/A	N/A
Northern Dynasty Minerals Competitors	-56.04%	0.43%	0.77%

Volatility & Risk

Northern Dynasty Minerals has a beta of -0.6, meaning that its share price is 160% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Northern Dynasty Minerals’ competitors have a beta of 0.83, meaning that their average share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Northern Dynasty Minerals competitors beat Northern Dynasty Minerals on 8 of the 12 factors compared.

Northern Dynasty Minerals Company Profile

Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. engages in the exploration of mineral properties in the United States. Its principal mineral property is the Pebble Copper-Gold-Molybdenum-Silver-Rhenium project comprising 1,840 mineral claims that covers an area of approximately 274 square miles located in southwest Alaska, 17 miles from the villages of Iliamna and Newhalen, and approximately 200 miles southwest of the city of Anchorage. The company was formerly known as Northern Dynasty Explorations Ltd. and changed its name to Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. in October 1997. Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. was incorporated in 1983 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.