Essential Metals Valuation

Is ESS undervalued compared to its fair value, analyst forecasts and its price relative to the market?

Valuation Score

1/6

Valuation Score 1/6

Below Fair Value
Significantly Below Fair Value
Price-To-Book vs Peers
Price-To-Book vs Industry
Price-To-Book vs Fair Ratio
Analyst Forecast

Share Price vs Fair Value

What is the Fair Price of ESS when looking at its future cash flows? For this estimate we use a Discounted Cash Flow model.

Below Fair Value: Insufficient data to calculate ESS's fair value for valuation analysis.

Significantly Below Fair Value: Insufficient data to calculate ESS's fair value for valuation analysis.

Key Valuation Metric

Which metric is best to use when looking at relative valuation for ESS?

Key metric: As ESS is unprofitable and pre-revenue we use its Price-To-Book Ratio for relative valuation analysis.

The above table shows the Price to Book ratio for ESS. This is calculated by dividing ESS's market cap by their current book value.
What is ESS's PB Ratio?
PB Ratio	4.8x
Book	AU$28.08m
Market Cap	AU$135.28m

ESS key valuation metrics and ratios. From Price to Earnings, Price to Sales and Price to Book to Price to Earnings Growth Ratio, Enterprise Value and EBITDA.
Key Statistics
Enterprise Value/Revenue	n/a
Enterprise Value/EBITDA	-69.5x
PEG Ratio	n/a

Price to Book Ratio vs Peers

How does ESS's PB Ratio compare to its peers?

The above table shows the PB ratio for ESS vs its peers. Here we also display the market cap and forecasted growth for additional consideration.
Company	Forward PB	Estimated Growth	Market Cap
Peer Average	5.6x
ENR Encounter Resources	4.9x	n/a	AU$177.2m
WIA WIA Gold	3.6x	n/a	AU$150.5m
CNB Carnaby Resources	2.3x	63.6%	AU$61.9m
PTR Petratherm	11.4x	n/a	AU$62.2m
ESS Essential Metals	4.8x	n/a	AU$135.3m

Price-To-Book vs Peers: ESS is good value based on its Price-To-Book Ratio (4.8x) compared to the peer average (4.9x).

Price to Book Ratio vs Industry

How does ESS's PB Ratio compare vs other companies in the AU Metals and Mining Industry?

15 Companies	Price / Book	Estimated Growth	Market Cap
HAS Hastings Technology Metals	0.2x	12.6%	US$32.94m
JRV Jervois Global	0.1x	n/a	US$21.10m
ADN Andromeda Metals	0.2x	25.5%	US$15.60m
CTO Citigold	0.1x	n/a	US$7.81m

15 Companies		Estimated Growth	Market Cap

No more companies

Price-To-Book vs Industry: ESS is expensive based on its Price-To-Book Ratio (4.8x) compared to the Australian Metals and Mining industry average (1.3x).

Price to Book Ratio vs Fair Ratio

What is ESS's PB Ratio compared to its Fair PB Ratio? This is the expected PB Ratio taking into account the company's forecast earnings growth, profit margins and other risk factors.

ESS PB Ratio vs Fair Ratio.
Fair Ratio
Current PB Ratio	4.8x
Fair PB Ratio	n/a

Price-To-Book vs Fair Ratio: Insufficient data to calculate ESS's Price-To-Book Fair Ratio for valuation analysis.

Analyst Price Targets

What is the analyst 12-month forecast and do we have any statistical confidence in the consensus price target?

Analyst Forecast: Insufficient data to show price forecast.

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