Analyzing Aurubis (AIAGY) and Its Peers

Aurubis (OTCMKTS:AIAGY) is one of 436 public companies in the “Machinery” industry, but how does it compare to its rivals? We will compare Aurubis to similar companies based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, earnings and risk.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Aurubis and its rivals, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Aurubis	0	2	0	0	2.00
Aurubis Competitors	4060	14475	17884	774	2.41

As a group, “Machinery” companies have a potential upside of 27.82%. Given Aurubis’ rivals stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Aurubis has less favorable growth aspects than its rivals.

Valuation and Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Aurubis	N/A	N/A	206.32
Aurubis Competitors	$4.52 billion	$348.45 million	-12.73

Aurubis’ rivals have higher revenue and earnings than Aurubis. Aurubis 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.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

52.6% of shares of all “Machinery” companies are owned by institutional investors. 13.8% of shares of all “Machinery” 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.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Aurubis	N/A	N/A	N/A
Aurubis Competitors	-1,929.90%	-12.09%	0.74%

Summary

Aurubis rivals beat Aurubis on 8 of the 11 factors compared.

About Aurubis

Aurubis AG processes metal concentrates and recycling materials in Germany. The company processes scrap metals, organic and inorganic metalbearing recycling raw materials, and industrial residues. It also offers wire rods and specialty wires, shapes, bars and profiles, industrial rolled products, and architectural rolled products. In addition, the company produces gold, silver, tin, lead, lead-bismuth alloy, lead-antimony litharge, tellurium metals, and tellurium dioxide. Further, the company engages in the recycling of copper, copper scrap, alloy scrap and other recycling materials, precious metals, and other non-ferrous metals. Additionally, it produces sulfuric acid, iron-silicate, smelter intermediates, and selenium, as well as produces various products from purchased copper and copper alloy scrap, electronic scrap, and industrial residues. The company was formerly known as Norddeutsche Affinerie AG and changed its name to Aurubis AG in April 2009. Aurubis AG was founded in 1866 and is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany.