Aris Mining (ARIS) versus Its Rivals Critical Contrast

Aris Mining (NYSE:ARIS) is one of 1,984 publicly-traded companies in the “Metals & Mining” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Aris Mining to similar businesses based on the strength of its earnings, valuation, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and risk.

Risk and Volatility

Aris Mining has a beta of 0.18, indicating that its stock price is 82% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aris Mining’s peers have a beta of 0.98, indicating that their average stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Aris Mining and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Aris Mining	1	0	2	0	2.33
Aris Mining Competitors	6406	22609	32306	1801	2.47

As a group, “Metals & Mining” companies have a potential upside of 27.85%. Given Aris Mining’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Aris Mining has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Aris Mining and its peers revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Aris Mining	$927.66 million	$78.35 million	10.48
Aris Mining Competitors	$4.79 billion	$279.47 million	-26.21

Aris Mining’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than Aris Mining. Aris Mining 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.

Profitability

This table compares Aris Mining and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Aris Mining	23.68%	21.49%	12.89%
Aris Mining Competitors	-1,164,884,689,320,590,400.00%	-52.78%	-2.01%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

39.7% of Aris Mining shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.1% of shares of all “Metals & Mining” companies are held by institutional investors. 37.8% of Aris Mining shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 17.6% of shares of all “Metals & Mining” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Aris Mining beats its peers on 7 of the 13 factors compared.

About Aris Mining

Aris Mining Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, and operation of gold properties in Canada, Colombia, and Guyana. It also explores for silver and copper deposits. The company was formerly known as GCM Mining Corp. and changed its name to Aris Mining Corporation in September 2022. Aris Mining Corporation is based in Vancouver, Canada.