Jaguar Mining (JAGGD) and Its Rivals Head-To-Head Comparison

Jaguar Mining (OTCMKTS:JAGGD) is one of 112 publicly-traded companies in the “Metal Mining” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its competitors? We will compare Jaguar Mining to similar businesses based on the strength of its institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, dividends, valuation and earnings.

Volatility & Risk

Jaguar Mining has a beta of 2.75, suggesting that its share price is 175% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Jaguar Mining’s competitors have a beta of 1.14, suggesting that their average share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Jaguar Mining and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Jaguar Mining	$97.23 million	-$150,000.00	7.61
Jaguar Mining Competitors	$6.75 billion	$972.86 million	-5.24

Jaguar Mining’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Jaguar Mining. Jaguar Mining is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

27.5% of shares of all “Metal Mining” companies are held by institutional investors. 12.8% of shares of all “Metal Mining” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Jaguar Mining and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Jaguar Mining	0	0	0	0	N/A
Jaguar Mining Competitors	1199	2572	3135	123	2.31

As a group, “Metal Mining” companies have a potential upside of 38.45%. Given Jaguar Mining’s competitors higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Jaguar Mining has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Dividends

Jaguar Mining pays an annual dividend of $0.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. Jaguar Mining pays out 49.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Metal Mining” companies pay a dividend yield of 3.0% and pay out 99.8% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. Jaguar Mining is clearly a better dividend stock than its competitors, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Profitability

This table compares Jaguar Mining and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Jaguar Mining	28.17%	26.75%	17.80%
Jaguar Mining Competitors	-812.64%	-11.64%	-9.77%

Summary

Jaguar Mining beats its competitors on 7 of the 12 factors compared.

About Jaguar Mining

Jaguar Mining, Inc. engages in the acquisition, exploration, development and operation of gold producing properties in Brazil. Its mining operations include Turmalina, Paciência and Caeté. The firm is also developing the Grurupi Project and exploring the Iron Quadrangle and Pedra Branca Project. The company was founded by Daniel R. Titcomb in 1984 and is headquartered Toronto, Canada.