Wholesale-Jewelry, Watches, Precious Stones & Metals
A-Mark Precious Metals, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a precious metals trading company. It operates in three segments: Wholesale Sales & Ancillary Services, Direct-to-Consumer, and Secured Lending. The Wholesale Sales & Ancillary Services segment sells gold, silver, platinum, and palladium in the form of bars, plates, powders, wafers, grains, ingots, and coins. This segment also offers various ancillary services, including financing, storage, consignment, logistics, and various customized financial programs; and designs and produces minted silver products. The Direct-to-Consumer segment provides access to an array of gold, silver, copper, platinum, and palladium products through its websites and marketplaces. It operates five company-owned websites targeting specific niches within the precious metals retail market. This segment also operates as a direct retailer of precious metals to the investor community and markets its precious metal products on television, radio, and the internet, as well as through customer service outreach. The Secured Lending segment originates and acquires commercial loans secured by bullion and numismatic coins; and serves coin and precious metal dealers, investors, and collectors. It serves customers, including financial institutions, bullion retailers, industrial manufacturers and fabricators, sovereign mints, refiners, coin and metal dealers, investors, collectors, and e-commerce and other retail customers. The company has operations in the United States, rest of North America, Europe, the Asia Pacific, Africa, and Australia. A-Mark Precious Metals, Inc. was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in El Segundo, California.
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High margins render the company resilient under dire circumstances, hence able to drive competitors out or acquire them. ROE and ROA measure the average flow generated by each invested dollar. Their marginal value is a forecast of future growth, and it is considered by Buffett and Munger the most important single indicator.
Years | 06-2015 | 06-2016 | 06-2017 | 06-2018 | 06-2019 | 06-2020 | 06-2021 | 06-2022 | 06-2023 | TTM |
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Net Margin | - | - | - | - | 0.047% | 0.56% | 2.1% | 1.6% | 1.7% | 0.77% |
ROA | 2.8% | 3.6% | 2.3% | -0.46% | 0.46% | 5% | 16% | 12% | 13% | 6.3% |
ROE | - | - | - | - | 3.1% | 29% | 44% | 27% | 26% | 14% |
The average Net Margin over the past 5 years is +1.2%.
The trend of Net Margin over the past 5 years is +0.43%.
The average ROA over the past 5 years is +7.64%.
The trend of ROA over the past 5 years is +3.21%.
The average ROE over the past 5 years is +25.82%.
The trend of ROE over the past 5 years is +4.39%.
Being debt the number one cause of investment losses and company death, the ratio Debt/FCF is of utmost importance to guarantee safety. On the other hand the Graham’s stability measures the drawdown of earnings, hence indicating the reliability of the flow generated by the company.
Years | 06-2015 | 06-2016 | 06-2017 | 06-2018 | 06-2019 | 06-2020 | 06-2021 | 06-2022 | 06-2023 | TTM |
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Debt FCF | -0.03 | - | 0.00 | 1.14 | -6.11 | - | - | 0.00 | -2.71 | 0.00 |
Debt Equity | 0.00 | - | 0.00 | 0.10 | 1.27 | - | - | 0.00 | 0.16 | 0.00 |
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Graham Stability | - | - | - | - | - | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
The Debt/FCF trailing twelve month is 0.00.
The trend of Debt/FCF over the past 5 years is -0.03.
Graham’s Stability measure stands at 1.00.
Growth can be dangerous when forecasting, simply projecting the current growth is in general wrong. A company passes through multiple phases, from being young and unprofitable, to the first periods of profitability and high growth, until it arrives at a period of regime with limited growth. Identifying in which phase the company is in may help forecasting.
Years | 06-2016 | 06-2018 | 06-2020 | 06-2022 | Trend |
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Revenue | 4.6% | 4.1% | 19% | 14% | 1.9% |
Net Income | - | - | 72% | 18% | -420% |
Stockholders Equity | 38% | 54% | 79% | 22% | 10% |
FCF | - | - | - | - | - |
The Revenue CAGR over the past 5 years is +4.07%.
The trend of Revenue growth rate over the past 5 years is +1.89%.
The Earnings CAGR over the past 5 years is -.
The trend of Earnings growth rate over the past 5 years is -419.99%.
The Equity CAGR over the past 5 years is +54.09%.
The trend of Equity growth rate over the past 5 years is +10.25%.
The FCF CAGR over the past 5 years is -.
The trend of FCF growth rate over the past 5 years is -.