Contrasting Coeur Mining (CDE) & Its Rivals

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings for Coeur Mining and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Coeur Mining	0	3	8	1	2.83
Coeur Mining Competitors	6406	22609	32308	1801	2.47

Coeur Mining currently has a consensus target price of $26.06, suggesting a potential upside of 68.28%. As a group, “Metals & Mining” companies have a potential upside of 24.57%. Given Coeur Mining’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Coeur Mining is more favorable than its peers.

Earnings and Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Coeur Mining	$2.07 billion	$585.87 million	17.80
Coeur Mining Competitors	$5.23 billion	$278.94 million	-26.24

Coeur Mining’s peers have higher revenue, but lower earnings than Coeur Mining. Coeur 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.

Dividends

Coeur Mining pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Coeur Mining pays out 4.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Metals & Mining” companies pay a dividend yield of 10.0% and pay out 10.8% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Coeur Mining	19.25%	8.12%	5.57%
Coeur Mining Competitors	-1,164,884,689,320,590,400.00%	-52.92%	-2.03%

Volatility and Risk

Coeur Mining has a beta of 1.46, meaning that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coeur Mining’s peers have a beta of 0.96, meaning that their average stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

63.0% of Coeur Mining shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.9% of shares of all “Metals & Mining” companies are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Coeur Mining shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.7% of shares of all “Metals & Mining” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Coeur Mining beats its peers on 12 of the 15 factors compared.

Coeur Mining Company Profile

Coeur Mining, Inc. explores for precious metals in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The company primarily explores for gold, silver, zinc, and lead properties. It markets and sells its concentrates to third-party customers, smelters, under off-take agreements. The company was formerly known as Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation and changed its name to Coeur Mining, Inc. in May 2013. Coeur Mining, Inc. was incorporated in 1928 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.