Head-To-Head Contrast: Reliance (NYSE:RS) vs. Tamino Minerals (OTCMKTS:TINO)

Tamino Minerals (OTCMKTS:TINO) and Reliance (NYSE:RS) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability and valuation.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

79.3% of Reliance shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.3% of Tamino Minerals shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Reliance shares are owned by company 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.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Tamino Minerals and Reliance, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Tamino Minerals	0	0	0	0	0.00
Reliance	0	4	3	0	2.43

Reliance has a consensus price target of $317.25, suggesting a potential upside of 7.33%. Given Reliance’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Reliance is more favorable than Tamino Minerals.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Tamino Minerals and Reliance”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Tamino Minerals	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Reliance	$13.84 billion	1.12	$875.20 million	$13.68	21.61

Reliance has higher revenue and earnings than Tamino Minerals.

Profitability

This table compares Tamino Minerals and Reliance’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Tamino Minerals	N/A	N/A	N/A
Reliance	5.23%	10.37%	7.24%

Volatility & Risk

Tamino Minerals has a beta of 0.7, indicating that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Reliance has a beta of 0.92, indicating that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Reliance beats Tamino Minerals on 9 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Tamino Minerals

Tamino Minerals, Inc. operates as a mineral exploration and development company. The company explores for gold, copper, lead, silver, lithium, and zinc deposits. It holds a portfolio of properties located in Mexico. The company was formerly known as Entertainment Games, Inc. and changed its name to Tamino Minerals, Inc. in March 2013. Tamino Minerals, Inc. was incorporated in 1992 and is based in Hermosillo, Mexico.

About Reliance

Reliance, Inc. operates as a diversified metal solutions provider and the metals service center company in the United States, Canada, and internationally. The company distributes a line of approximately 100,000 metal products, including alloy, aluminum, brass, copper, carbon steel, stainless steel, titanium, and specialty steel products; and provides metals processing services to general manufacturing, non-residential construction, transportation, aerospace, energy, electronics and semiconductor fabrication, and heavy industries. It sells its products directly to original equipment manufacturers, which primarily include small machine shops and fabricators. The company was formerly known as Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. and changed its name to Reliance, Inc. in February 2024. Reliance, Inc. was founded in 1939 and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona.