Reviewing Namib Minerals (NAMM) and Its Competitors

Profitability

This table compares Namib Minerals and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Namib Minerals	N/A	N/A	-42.57%
Namib Minerals Competitors	-56.04%	0.43%	0.77%

Risk and Volatility

Namib Minerals has a beta of -0.16, suggesting that its stock price is 116% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Namib Minerals’ peers have a beta of 0.85, suggesting that their average stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Namib Minerals and its peers revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Namib Minerals	N/A	-$20.75 million	-2.51
Namib Minerals Competitors	$901.64 million	-$221.11 million	-42.74

Namib Minerals’ peers have higher revenue, but lower earnings than Namib Minerals. Namib Minerals 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.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

59.5% of Namib Minerals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.5% of shares of all “Gold & Silver Ores” companies are owned by institutional investors. 30.5% of Namib Minerals shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 11.1% of shares of all “Gold & Silver Ores” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Namib Minerals beats its peers on 5 of the 9 factors compared.

About Namib Minerals

Namib Minerals is a gold producer, developer and explorer with operations focused principally in Zimbabwe. Namib Minerals, formerly known as Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VI, is based in New York.