Critical Survey: Franklin Mining (FMNJ) and Its Competitors

Franklin Mining (OTCMKTS:FMNJ) is one of 108 public companies in the “Gold & silver ores” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Franklin Mining to related businesses based on the strength of its institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, profitability, dividends and analyst recommendations.

Risk and Volatility

Franklin Mining has a beta of 0.55, suggesting that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Franklin Mining’s peers have a beta of 1.02, suggesting that their average share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

35.2% of shares of all “Gold & silver ores” companies are held by institutional investors. 20.0% of Franklin Mining shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.1% of shares of all “Gold & silver ores” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Franklin Mining and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Franklin Mining	N/A	-$430,000.00	-0.04
Franklin Mining Competitors	$4.72 billion	-$74.05 million	-6.52

Franklin Mining’s peers have higher revenue, but lower earnings than Franklin Mining. Franklin 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 Franklin Mining and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Franklin Mining	N/A	N/A	N/A
Franklin Mining Competitors	-40.19%	4.47%	3.48%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for Franklin Mining and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Franklin Mining	0	0	0	0	N/A
Franklin Mining Competitors	1074	3523	4375	120	2.39

As a group, “Gold & silver ores” companies have a potential upside of 15.20%. Given Franklin Mining’s peers higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Franklin Mining has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Summary

Franklin Mining peers beat Franklin Mining on 6 of the 10 factors compared.

About Franklin Mining

Franklin Mining, Inc., a mining and exploration company, acquires and develops mineral properties. The company explores for gold, silver, lead, and zinc deposits. It owns interests in the La Joya mining concession in Bolivia; and Madre de Dios Area, Ch-Mine, and Los Totems project in Peru. The company was formerly known as WCM Capital, Inc. Franklin Mining, Inc. was founded in 1864 and is based in Carson City, Nevada.