Have a look at the recent track record of AG’s earnings disasters.
The company has missed earnings expectations for 5 of the past 6 quarters with one meet. At the same time, both earnings and revenues are going in the opposite direction, valuation remains rich. Tell me why?
There isn’t any growth to speak of at AG, so why does it deserve such a rich price to sales ration, at a staggering 8x sales. A fine company like PAAS, one that has good free cash flow, is stuck at under 3x, alongside GPL, FSM, EXK and HL (4.3X). I want to be educated here and understand why AG should trade at more triple the sales of PAAS?
Is the the low FPE ratio? Perhaps.
But how reliable is the “E” in “PE” when the company misses by a football field almost every quarter?
With the raw commodity in the penalty box and miners in full liquidation mode by long term faithful investors, I sense much lower prices are in order for AG–perhaps down to $12.
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I like this pair trade (long PAAS short AG) but going to wait for a better level to enter in.
Also you’ll collect a 3% div on it as well as AG pays nothing and PAAS pays 3%
ag is overpriced
I like this pair trade – short AG and short PAAS 🙂 but I don’t short single stocks myself … just DUST
you are absolutely correct on AG
nice job
This may be a “friendly” update but the price action on the miners is decidedly unfriendly. Downright hostile.
as I’m sure you know, mining and resource companies don’t trade on multiples of earnings. They typically trade on a $/oz value. Imagine a mining company that owns the largest silver mine in the world but only is currently producing $1,000 in revenue. Obviously this stock would not be useful if valued on a multiple of revenue since that valuation would exclude the value of their asset. I know nothing about AG but I’d imagine they have more resources in the ground or they’re expected to grow production more quickly.
The correlation is def not perfect dude. Check it out vs SLV http://finviz.com/screener.ashx?v=211&t=SLV,AG
I’m not referencing a SLV correlation though. I’m just mentioning that valuing miners based on P/E or some other income statement metric ignores both the future potential value of their asset along with the fact that they’re inherently melting ice cubes.
Imagine two miners. One generating $1m in annual cash flow with a small mine that will only last 2 years. Then imagine another miner generating $100k in annual cash flow but a huge mine that will last 1000 years.
All I’m saying is that you can’t value a mining company based on the income statement because resource companies aren’t real businesses in the traditional sense of the word.
I’ll get ya on messenger.
Alright, is this getting overextended, or do you all think we go higher from here?
Furthermore, this is less a “friendly” update than a not-so-subtle dig at anyone foolish to be long these POS miners.
The daily bashing of these mining stocks is rather hilarious.
“buy when there is blood in the streets”
there’s no panic yet, the blood has yet to flow
every mining money manager I know is getting redemptions and every mining stock in the world was at 52 week lows a month ago, and is now down another 25%….
The Gold Trade is dead. Therefore, Silver is dead.
No reason to buy any of it for a few years. Been a nice decade-long run but has to digest now.